Georgia O'Keeffe 1935

This is a photograph of Georgia O’Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz. It's all greyscale, full of soft shadows, and quiet observation. Looking at it, I imagine Stieglitz and O’Keeffe in a room together, the air thick with unspoken thoughts. I wonder if she posed willingly or if he caught her in a moment of reverie. Her face is framed by her hands, and her expression is intense. It makes me think about what it means to really see someone, to capture their essence in a single frame. The lines of the blanket around her shoulders seem to echo the lines of her face, creating a sense of depth. Stieglitz made many portraits of O'Keeffe over the years. You can see them trying out different ideas about what it means to see, feel and reveal a person through art. Photography and painting, they are just different ways of trying to solve the same problems! What do we really see when we look at a person?