Georgia O'keeffe-Hands And Horse Skull, 1931

Gelatin silver print, 1931. Section of a composite portrait of the artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986), his wife. Stieglitz believed portraiture was more than just the face and that it should be a record of a person's entire experience, a mosaic of expressive movements, emotions, and gestures that would collectively show a life. "To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of any person," he claimed, "is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.