How to present in Paris Georgia O'Keeffe, revered artist of American museums who drew his inspiration directly from the great spaces of his nation and the very foundations of his young culture?
It's a bit like introducing Marilyn Monroe to an audience that does not know cinema or the realm of Hollywood.
The Tate Modern in London had shown, in its exhaustive retrospective in 2016, the splendid nude photos taken by Alfred Stieglitz of his lover.
In 2015, the Musée de Grenoble established an extremely sensitive parallel between the painter and her photographer friends, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, Todd Webb.
Two key facets of his character that do not say everything about his unique temperament.
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