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This is so interesting, yet also painful to read. Stieglitz comes across as quite a force of destruction (except in terms of his own work, of course).

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Of course there are at least two sides to every story but yes it seems like his impact on the women in his life was a difficult one

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So interesting. During my graduate studies, I took several art and art history classes in which O'Keefe was the subject (and, by association, Stieglitz). Since my focus (Humanities: Literature and History) was on the modern period in America, I ran across several women writers and artists whose health suffered as a result of relationships with men who either used them as a muse (I laugh at that term now) or, as in Alfred's case, objectified them. I'm thankful to see another woman artist telling the story of a sister-artist who suffered in this way.

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