EISLER, BENITA — O'KEEFFE & STIEGLITZ : An American Romance

New York : Penguin Books 2010 ADDED four photographs on cards, bought in the Museum shop. X + 546 p., illustrated w/archival photo´s, bibbliog, index SOFTCOVER: (Orig. paperback with Illustrated covers. VERY GOOD) This frank but flawed dual biography of Alfred Stieglitz (1864 - 1946), photographer, art dealer, impresario & advocatie for the Modernist movement, and, Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (1887 -1986) , painter. An intimate portrat covering their first meeting in 1916 to their deaths (he in 1946, she in 1986), reveals along the way the development of photography as an art form, the experience of a woman artist, and much about the studios, galleries, life style, and politics of the artistic communities in New York City and Taos.