 |
 |
||
|
I discovered Georgia O'Keeffe soon after I graduated. In the very last scene of a documentary movie, an old woman climbs a ladder all the way to the top of her house. I was impressed by the strength and charisma of such an old woman and decided to find out more about her. I learnt she was partly Hungarian, but what is more important I absolutely loved how her career came about, the way she made her choices, how she chose her men, how she made situations awkward for herself, painting away when it wasn't a womanly thing to do. |
||
| I'd read her diary where she writes so eloquently about Taos, Black Place and so on — I saw it all in colour. This was before I'd been to America, so all the knowledge of the country came from Technicolor movies. I did the series in 1982, about her travels in the 1920s, using a black car like the one Stieglitz (the photographer, her husband) had given her. | ||
 |
|
|
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |