Georgia O’Keeffe, 1956, by Yousuf Karsh
In perhaps one Karsh's most famous photographs, Karsh travelled from his studio in Ottawa, Canada to Abiquiu, New Mexico, to capture American painter Georgia O’Keeffe for a portrait around 1956. He later wrote that he had hoped to find in her “some of the poetic intensity of her paintings.” Instead Karsh found “the austere intensity of dedication to her work.” He made a quiet portrait of the distant O’Keeffe during a moment of repose in her home.
'I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.' Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
