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Margaret Prosser - hands clasped

________________________________Georgia O'Keefe__________________________________

"My hands had always been admired...but I never thought much about it, "recalled Georgia O'Keeffe when she looked at this photograph some sixty years after it was made. As part of the consuming passion for O'Keeffe that drove Alfred Stieglitz to leave his first wife and child, he conducted a great love affair with her hands through his camera. From the very begining of their relationship, Stieglitz photographed O'Keeffe, eventually produced a cumulative portrait of more than 325 photographs. Here photographed so that only her hands are visible, the dynamics of her gesture envokes the rhythms of music and dance as well as the abstract, biomorphic shapes of O'Keeffe's own drawings and paintings. Site Found