Georgia O'Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity (Portland Museum of Art)
Perhaps no other prominent American artist has been photographed more than painter Georgia O'Keeffe, who moved to New Mexico in 1949 and lived to the age of 99. Photographer Alfred Stieglitz first met her in 1916; over 20 years, she was his subject for more than 350 portraits, including the famous hand studies. Later, many more legendary artists also photographed her, including Ansel Adams, Andy Warhol, Philippe Halsman, Arnold Newman, and Irving Penn. Danly, a curator at the Portland (ME) Museum of Art, collects several decades of O'Keeffe portraits by a wide range of photographers, which she pairs chronologically with O'Keeffe's paintings and sculptures. Coinciding with a major traveling exhibition, this historical presentation gives us a view of the artist through several lenses. Featuring an introduction by Barbara Buhler Lynes, curator at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, and an extensive essay by Danly, the book also includes an O'Keeffe chronology and an exhibition checklist. Similar in scope toTwo Lives: Georgia O'Keeffe & Alfred Stieglitz(1992), this catalog is recommended for all collections.—Shauna Frischkorn, Millersville Univ., PACopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.