Which artist photographed Georgia O'Keeffe in hundreds of portraits between 1917 and 1932?

Alfred Stieglitz photographed Georgia O'Keeffe in hundreds of portraits between 1917 and 1932.

Stieglitz was an influential American photographer, gallery owner, and promoter of modern art. He first encountered O'Keeffe’s work when her friend Anita Pollitzer showed him some of her charcoal drawings. He exhibited those drawings at his 291 gallery in New York in 1916 and organized her first solo exhibition there in 1917.

Over the next years, Stieglitz made hundreds of photographs of O'Keeffe, including portraits and detailed studies of her hands, clothing, and body. The images became a significant part of his photographic output and helped establish O'Keeffe as a public figure in New York’s art world.

O'Keeffe later resisted interpretations that reduced her paintings to biography or sexuality. The photographs therefore raise an important distinction: Stieglitz documented her extensively, but O'Keeffe’s paintings developed through her own ideas, materials, and subjects.