quinta-feira, dezembro 25, 2003
As mãos de Georgia O'Keeffe
fotografadas por Alfred Stieglitz, em 1918
Stieglitz photographed me first at his gallery "291" in the spring of 1917. … My hands had always been admired since I was a little girl — but I never thought much about it. He wanted head and hands and arms on a pillow — in many different positions. I was asked to move my hands in many different ways — also my head — and I had to turn this way and that. … Stieglitz had a very sharp eye for what he wanted to say with the camera. When I look over the photographs Stieglitz took of me — some of them more than sixty years ago — I wonder who that person is. It is as if in my one life I have lived many lives. … His idea of a portrait was not just one picture. His dream was to start with a child at birth and photograph that child in all of its activities as it grew to be a person and on throughout its adult life. As a portrait it would be a photographic diary.
