Aziz Art June 2016

The marriage did not seem to a public sensation. She once made
have any immediate effect on a remark to Pollitzer about the
either Stieglitz or O'Keeffe; they nude photographs which may be
both continued working on their the best indication of O'Keeffe's
individual projects as they had ultimate reaction to being their
before. For the rest of their lives subject: "I felt somehow that the
together, their relationship was, photographs had nothing to do
as biographer Benita Eisler with me personally." In 1978, she
characterized it,
wrote about how distant from
a collusion ... a system
them she had become: "When I
of deals and trade-offs, tacitly look over the photographs Stieglitz
agreed to and carried out, for the took of me-some of them more
most part, without the
than sixty years ago—I wonder who
exchange of a word. Preferring that person is. It is as if in my one
avoidance to confrontation on life I have lived many lives. If the
most issues, O'Keeffe was the person in the photographs were
principal agent of collusion in their living in this world today, she would
union.
be quite a different person—but it
Stieglitz started photographing doesn't matter—Stieglitz
O'Keeffe when she visited him in photographed her then."
New York City to see her 1917 Beginning in 1918, O'Keeffe came
exhibition. By 1937, when he to know the many early American
retired from photography, he had modernists who were part of
made more than 350 portraits of Stieglitz's circle of artists, including
her. Most of the more erotic Charles Demuth,
photographs were made in the
1910s and early 1920s. In February
1921, forty-five of Stieglitz's
photographs were exhibited in a
retrospective exhibition at the
Anderson Galleries, including many
of O'Keeffe, some of which
depicted her in the nude. It created