Double Exposure Photographs of Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Paintings
25 photos taken in the late 90's and newly rediscovered this week inspiring my creativity
Yesterday I shared with you the story of rediscovering an old photo series I did when I was in my late teens and what it means to me to today.
Rediscovering My Old Double Exposure Photos of Georgia O'Keeffe Produces Memories of My Creativity I Hadn't Even Known Had Faded
One of the beautiful things that happens when moving from one house to another is that things that were buried on shelves and long forgotten find their way up to the surface and back into my awareness. Over the weekend, I came across an album of photography explorations I did when I was about 19 years old, starting with a whole series of double exposure photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe and her work, and it brought back so many creative memories, weaving together some loose threads in my personal artistic world that I hadn’t even realized were still dangling. I’ll share the story of that work with you here today, a few images along with some additional images from that time, and the memories I’m working through about what photography meant to me then and could mean to me now.
Today I thought I’d share the photo set with you.
NOTE ON PHOTO SOURCES: I didn’t keep any records of which books I used to source the photos for my Georgia O’Keeffe series. I am almost certain that the photos are from Georgia O'Keeffe, a portrait, a 1978 book by Stieglitz. I have tried to figure out which books I might have used to photograph her paintings but I’m not sure; all I know is that they would have been published before 2000 and were likely large coffee table books.
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