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Lisa Volpe's careful scholarship offers a new perspective on the work of Georgia O'Keeffe. As viewers, we are invited to see the intimacy of her surroundings through the act of taking pictures. -Catherine Opie A necessary, and beautiful, contribution to the mountain of scholarship on Georgia O'Keeffe. For the first time, we can talk about O'Keeffe as a photographer and within the long line of modern artists who used photography as a critical tool in constructing their paintings. -Bruce Robertson, University of California, Santa Barbara O'Keeffe had no desire to be an art photographer, this welcome study reveals, but she deeply exploited the camera's potential to focus and frame motifs in memorable compositions. In ways unknown until now, she used her Leica and Polaroid as power tools to exercise her eye and practice her formal aesthetics. -Wanda M. Corn, author of Georgia O'Keeffe, Living Modern

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Lisa Volpe is associate curator of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Ariel Plotek is curator of fine art at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.

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