Georgia O'Keeffe - Feet 1918

Alfred Stieglitz made this photograph, 'Georgia O'Keeffe - Feet', with gelatin silver print on paper. Look at those feet dangling! It's intimate, right? Like we've stumbled into a private moment. Stieglitz was clearly fascinated by O'Keeffe, his muse, and wife. I imagine him circling her, searching for the perfect angle, the light just so. I’m drawn to the composition and the play of light. The neutral palette, the sharp focus on the feet against the soft dark background... it’s so physical and suggestive. The photograph’s cropped view gives a sense of closeness and incompleteness. It reminds me of other artists like Egon Schiele and Alice Neel, who also captured the body with such directness. Artists are always responding to each other, riffing off ideas, pushing boundaries. It makes me wonder what O'Keeffe thought of this image. Did she see herself in it? What did it mean to her? Because meaning, like art, is never fixed, is it?