Which photographer created the famous portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe and later married her?

Alfred Stieglitz created the famous portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe and later married her. Over several decades, he photographed her repeatedly, producing hundreds of images that documented her face, body, clothing, and changing public identity.

Stieglitz’s portraits were exhibited and published as part of his larger photographic practice. They also helped establish O’Keeffe’s public image before her paintings were widely known to a mass audience. O’Keeffe later objected to some interpretations of the photographs and worked to define herself on her own artistic terms.

Stieglitz and O’Keeffe married in 1924. He was nearly three decades older and already an established figure in American photography and gallery culture. Their relationship is important to art history, but O’Keeffe’s reputation ultimately rests on her own paintings, including flowers, abstractions, cityscapes, and New Mexico subjects.