Submission Date
4-27-2015
Document Type
Paper- Restricted to Campus Access
Department
Art
Adviser
Deborah Barkun
Committee Member
Sarah Kaufman
Committee Member
Patricia Schroeder
Department Chair
Deborah Barkun
Project Description
American painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) and the American photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) collaborated on a twenty year photographic portrait. With Stieglitz as photographer, and O’Keeffe as model, the two artists crafted a captivating series of inspired images. While O’Keeffe may fulfill traditional characteristics of an artist’s muse, she shatters its archetypal confines. The painter’s evolving photographic and artistic identity complicates the role she would traditionally inhabit as an artist’s muse. Stieglitz’s photographs, which capture O’Keeffe’s self-asserted identity, act as an exemplar for a larger argument, one which affords agency to non-dominant voices within a dominant majority.
Recommended Citation
Meyer, Jack A., "Inspired Images: On Georgia O'Keeffe & Alfred Stieglitz's Collaborative Photographs" (2015). Art and Art History Honors Papers. 1.
https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/art_hon/1
