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Georgia O'Keeffe and Orville Cox explore photographs The Ansel Adams Gallery
Georgia O'Keeffe and Orville Cox explore photographs The Ansel Adams Gallery

Georgia O'Keeffe and Orville Cox

Original Photograph Negative: 1937

Artist:  Ansel Adams

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Georgia O’Keeffe and Orville Cox, Canyon de Chelly National Monument

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Georgia O’Keeffe and Orville Cox, Canyon de Chelly National Monument

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Georgia O'Keeffe and Orville Cox.

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This image was made during a much-anticipated trip to the southwest in 1937 – just before the trip, Ansel wrote his patron and fellow journeyman David McAlpin that while waiting he felt ‘like a six-year-old on Christmas Eve!’ (LAA pg. 95)  O’Keeffe hosted Ansel, McAlpin and other members of the Rockefeller family near Abiquiu, New Mexico, before they headed out on a ten-day journey of the Four Corners region.  Orville Cox, a foreman at Ghost Ranch, was brought along as a trusted and knowledgeable guide.  Ansel had packed an array of equipment for the trip, including his 35mm Zeiss Contax.  A few days into the trip, the group stopped at Canyon de Chelly – the ‘high point of the journey’ according to Ansel. (E pg. 153)  A heavy rainstorm flooded the valley floor and pushed the group to explore the canyon rim.  While there, Ansel ‘observed O’Keeffe and Cox in a breezy conversation standing on a rock slope above me.  The moment [to take a portrait] was now.’ (E pg. 154)  The speedy and portable Zeiss Contax in hand, Ansel intuitively knelt to isolate the two jet clad figures against the brilliant sky.  He produced only one exposure as the bashful and impish tenor of the scene was fleeting, making his use of the more mobile 35mm instrument paramount.  A classic, if not perhaps the most well-known portrait from his career, Ansel included this image as one of the variants in his last major project, The Museum Set.

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