Which artist photographed Georgia O'Keeffe and became her husband?

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Alfred Stieglitz photographed Georgia O'Keeffe and became her husband. Beginning in the early 1910s, he made hundreds of photographs of her, creating one of the best-known photographic portraits of an American artist.

Stieglitz was not only a photographer but also a gallery owner, publisher, and advocate for modern art. He exhibited O'Keeffe's work in New York and helped introduce it to critics and collectors. Their marriage began in 1924 and lasted until Stieglitz died in 1946.

The photographs are often discussed alongside O'Keeffe's paintings because they shaped public perceptions of her. O'Keeffe later objected to the way some people reduced her art to interpretations based on the photographs or on supposed flower symbolism. The correct identification is Stieglitz, not another modernist photographer such as Man Ray or Edward Weston, both of whom were active in the same broad artistic period.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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