Georgia O'Keeffe's husband, the photographer who photographed her extensively, was Alfred Stieglitz. He made more than 300 photographs of O'Keeffe during their relationship.
The portraits and nudes were created over many years, beginning before their 1924 marriage and continuing afterward. Stieglitz's photographs helped construct a public image of O'Keeffe, while O'Keeffe's paintings and drawings established a separate artistic identity.
Their relationship has attracted substantial scholarly attention because the photographs were both intimate records and public works. Stieglitz exhibited some of them, and they contributed to debates about gender, authorship, sexuality, and the role of the artist's body in modern art.
O'Keeffe later became known for insisting on her own interpretation of her paintings, particularly when critics treated her flower images as symbols of female anatomy. Stieglitz's photographs should therefore not be mistaken for evidence that he created or controlled her painting style.