From a series of photographs I did for a friend 5 weeks before the birth of her daughter! This photograph was taken using super fast film (3200) and low light conditions. I was going through a grainy stage!! :D / /
This was taken at Tennyson Beach, Adelaide (South Australia). The model was incredibly patient during the photo shoot with many surprised locals stopping to check out the semi naked “Sailor Boy”. I’d like to thank the model for his strength and his enthusiasm.
......And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free…...
Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe. Oil on Canvas / American Artist. Georgia O’Keeffe was raised in Wisconsin, educated in Chicago and Virginia, taught, painted, and lived on the east coast until her early sixties when she moved to Abiquiu, & Santa Fe, New Mexico. Close to one hundred when she died in 1986, living alone and painting in scenery that inspired her famous flowers in closeup with strong sexuality, voluptuous lilies and poppies, stark desert landscapes and animal skeletons. She worked in charcoal, water color, and finally oils, and worked large. I’m not sure her story is known well outside the states. She was photographed, courted, and married (1924) by famed 1920’s photographer Alfred Stieglitz who adored her, left his wife and family for her, and made her more famous than he was. She too, was madly in love with him. His black and white photographs of O’Keeffe filled Stieglitz’s famed “291” gallery in New York and caused a sensation with portraits focused on her beautiful bone structure and striking looks, and spectacular nudity. He took over 300 portraits of her from 1918 to 1937. Stieglitz may have been in love, but smart enough of a businessman to cause O’Keeffe’s work to skyrocket in price, averaging $100,000 a painting, monumental for a living artist and a woman in that time. What he did for her career lasted, interest waned some but revived and her work is priceless now. Every girl painter can use a Stieglitz, few get one. Stieglitz died in 1946 and she moved permanently to New Mexico three years later after cataloguing his work and papers. She was 59, began a new life in a landscape she claimed as her own. “God said I may have that mountain,” she’d written, “if I paint it enough.” So she did. / I painted this from one of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe. / When you do portraits, you start to hear conversations from that time, get a sense of the thinking of the subject, smells and impressions wander through you or assault you inescapably. It’s a fascinating and somewhat dangerous occupation because when you put down the brush and turn away you wonder where the hell you’ve been and question your sanity. I’ve come to accept it as just what happens and there it is. One cannot help but see Stieglitz’s fascination with O’Keeffe’s profound physical symmetry. It bothered me. I thought it annoyed Georgia, too, that he was making more of it than in truth was there. Certainly a thoughtfully bright, introspective & solid woman. But he did not capture the O’Keeffe who stood in the desert in thunderstorms alone in the middle of the night to draw the electricity in the air into her being, which she was notorious for doing. Or the O’Keeffe who lived alone on her Ghost Ranch, and drove in her Model A Ford recklessly to plateaus and mountains of New Mexico to soak in the wilderness. DH Lawrence, Ansel Adams, the Lindberghs were visitors. / It’s not the last portrait I’ll do of her, but I wanted to see more in her than Stieglitz’s precision, no matter how beautiful that is to see. / I think he was incredibly kind and thoughtful about this woman’s life, and helped her reach a financial independence undreamt of for an artist of her time and sex. Stieglitz said of the first drawings of Georgia O’Keeffe that he saw: “Finally, a woman on paper!” He admired her, and he loved her. I can’t blame him for thinking her perfect. I’m just not so sure he saw the savage in Georgia. Other US photographers who did some earlier radical work in b/w, nature, and nudes you might want to visit: Ansel Adams. Brett, Edward, and Cole Weston. Edna St Vincent Millay wrote: “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— / It gives a lovely light!” / Which, published in 1918 became an anthem to end constraints on overwatched Victorian girls. A wild, free life… edged with death. / The Hawks Perch
Model is Ariane. / Location: Shreveport, Louisiana. / Lighting: Natural
Miss Bertie Page This is the delightful Miss Bertie Page Canon 40D with lensbaby original at f/2 SEASCAPES / INDUSTRIAL / PANORAMAS / LANDSCAPES / SPAM PHOTOS / REAL ESTATE SERIES / NEW ZEALAND / FROGS / FROGS / INFRARED / PLASTIC PEOPLE / PEOPLE / DICKY BEACH
Canon SX1-IS / Full Auto / Blue Saturation / GIMP edit / SP I make no pretense that I am anything other than a voluptous, curvaceous,rubenesque woman. I am no barbie doll, no size 8 with perfect plastic breasts, no pinup glamour princess. I am woman, all woman… I have borne and lost children and had and lost friends,lovers,partners and family. / I wear my scars and my age with dignity and respect. I am who I am. I will grow older and sag more, my wrinkles will line my skin and my body will lose its tone and muscle… so be it. This is who we are – human beings living and ageing and dying and loving and experiencing this wondrous gift called life… Baby Blue – Bob Dylan
One of my first and most successful nude line flow shots. The 1:3 aspect ratio gives it power and grace, but the magic comes from the flow of spirit. A Featured Image in the Studio Lighting Group See more of my 1:3 aspect ratio photographs on / redbubble* and on my / DreamsOfTheGoddess.com web site.
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