Two Lives, Georgia O'Keeffe & Alfred Stieglitz: A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs by Belinda Rathbone, et. al. 1992. Softcover. (LF)

Two Lives is a gorgeous curation of photographs and paintings that were in the exhibition displayed at the Phillip’s Collection in Washington D.C., in 1992. In facing pages you see how much they grew from each other, working in different media on the same subjects. At one point she is quoted as saying she was influenced more by his work than his person (though she always loved him, in spite of his "many contradictions," she says), but elsewhere he seems to make it clear that her person was as much of an inspiration to him as the work itself (though we know he didn't always love what she did, initially).

Three essays grace this collection, one by Roget Shattuck that places their work in the context of the art at the time, and how they helped shape their media and all art movements in certain ways; an essay by Belinda Rathbone about Stieglitz and how O'Keefe influenced his work, and an essay by Elizabeth Hutton Turner on how O'Keefe was influenced by Stieglitz.