Georgia O'Keeffe, photographer / Lisa Volpe ; with an essay by Ariel Plotek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Volpe, Lisa, author.

Contributor:

O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986, photographer.

Plotek, Ariel, writer of supplementary textual content.

Tinterow, Gary, writer of foreword.

Hartley, Cody, writer of foreword.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, host institution.

Addison Gallery of American Art, host institution.

Denver Art Museum, host institution.

Cincinnati Art Museum, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986--Exhibitions.

O'Keeffe, Georgia.

O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986.

Nature photography--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Nature photography.

Photography, Artistic--20th century--Exhibitions.

Photography, Artistic.

History.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

xiii, 274 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Houston : The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in association with Yale University Press, 2021.

Summary:

The pathbreaking artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) is revered for her iconic paintings of flowers, skyscrapers, animal skulls, and Southwestern landscapes. Her photographic work, however, has not been explored in depth until now. After the death of her husband, the photographer Alfred Stieglitz, in 1946, photography indeed became an important part of O'Keeffe's artistic production. She trained alongside the photographer Todd Webb, revisiting subjects that she had painted years before landforms of the Southwest, the black door in her courtyard, the road outside her window, and flowers. O'Keeffe's carefully composed photographs are not studies of detail or decisive moments; rather, they focus on the arrangement of forms. This is the first major investigation of O'Keeffe's photography and traces the artist's thirty-year exploration of the medium, including a complete catalogue of her photographic work. Essays by leading scholars address O'Keeffe's photographic approach and style and situate photography within the artist's overall practice. This richly illustrated volume significantly broadens our understanding of one of the most innovative artists of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Forewords / Gary Tinterow and Cody Hartley

"Always the artist": Georgia O'Keeffe and photography / Lisa Volpe

A unity of expression / Ariel Plotek

Featured works

Catalogue of the photographic works of Georgia O'Keeffe / Lisa Volpe.

Notes:

Chiefly illustrated.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 17, 2021-January 23, 2022; the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusets, February 26-June 12, 2022; the Denver Art Museum, July 3-November 6, 2022; and the Cincinnati Art Museum, February 3-May 7, 2023.

Includes biblioraphical references (pages 266-268) and index.

ISBN:

0300257805

9780300257809

OCLC:

1245473527