Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer Audio Exhibition
Todd Webb (American, 1905–2000), Georgia O’Keeffe with Camera, 1959, printed later inkjet print, Courtesy of the Todd Webb Archive
24 2/4 x 20 ¾ x 1 3/8 inches (62.9 x 52.7 x 3.5 cm)
Verbal Description
Hello, my name is Emily Bauman, the museum’s curatorial assistant for photography. I will be reading the verbal description of Georgia O’Keeffe with Camera in Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer.
Todd Webb was an American photographer who lived from 1905 to 2000. He took the photograph, Georgia O’Keeffe with Camera, in 1959. It is an inkjet print. The image is on view courtesy of the Todd Webb Archive.
This black-and-white photo of the artist Georgia O’Keeffe measures 24 and two-quarter inches by 20 and three-quarter inches and is portrait-oriented. In the picture, we see an older white woman with gray hair pulled up and away from her face. She was photographed from the waist up, and her figure fills most of the frame. Her back is turned away from the camera, so we see her in a slight profile. She wears a white blouse and holds a camera, a black strap around her neck. The camera is at chest height. In the background, we see mountains and desert terrain.
Label Text
Hello, my name is Emily Bauman, the museum’s curatorial assistant for photography. I will be reading the label for Georgia O’Keeffe with Camera in Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer.
Todd Webb was an American photographer who lived from 1905 to 2000. He took the photograph, Georgia O’Keeffe with Camera, in 1959. It is an inkjet print. The image is on view courtesy of the Todd Webb Archive.
In 1940, O’Keeffe purchased a cottage on Ghost Ranch, northwest of Abiquiú, New Mexico. Ghost Ranch would become her summer and fall home—a place of solitude where she concentrated on painting.
In 1955 O’Keeffe’s interest in beginning a photographic practice was sparked by a visit from her friend, photographer Todd Webb. Over the next few summers, Webb visited O’Keeffe in New Mexico, and the pair photographed together, often trading his cameras back and forth.