Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities [Hardcover]

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Author), Barbara Buhler Lynes (Author), Sandra S. Phillips (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 10, 2008

Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe first met in Taos, New Mexico, in 1929. She was already an established artist, while he was at the beginning of his career. Their friendship lasted for the rest of their lives.

GEORGIA O'KEEFE AND ANSEL ADAMS: NATURAL AFFINITIES suggests parallels in their distinctive visions of both natural and human-made environments and illustrates the artists' achievements in capturing the reality and essence of the world around them. More than 100 beautifully reproduced paintings and photographs are accompanied by critical essays on Adams and O'Keeffe and a biographical essay on the friendship between Adams, O'Keeffe, and Alfred Stieglitz.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Barbara Buhler Lynes is the curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and the author of numerous exhibition catalogues, essays, and books on O'Keeffe's work, including the Catalogue Raisonne. Anne Hammond is the guest curator of the exhibition entitled "Georgia'OKeeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities" and the author of Ansel Adams: Divine Performance. Journalist, documentary filmmaker, and critic Richard B. Woodward writes frequently about the arts for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Sandra S. Phillips is the curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition (September 10, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 031611832X
• ISBN-13: 978-0316118323
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 0.9 x 10.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #810,285 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars See the show, skip the book, October 5, 2008

By 

Ben Crane - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Hardcover)

I just saw this show at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. The show was very well put together, except that the Ansel Adams photographs were over matted covering a slight amount of the border and Ansel's signature.

Copies of this book were available at the show and after seeing the actual art I was very disappointed in the quality of the book. The color reproductions of O'Keeffe's work were OK, but the reproductions of the photographs were just awful. The reproductions appeared flat in comparison to the photographs but also in comparison to many other better reproductions of Ansel's work. No only that but there appeared to be a lot of dust on the photographs when they were reproduced. For instance the black sky in his iconic 'Moonrise Over Hernandez New Mexico' has several dozen white spots in the sky. Other photographs suffer from this same problem. It is unfortunate since the show included a couple images I had not seen reproduced before.

The publisher of this book (Little Brown) has recently published several of Ansel's books in the past including 'Trees' and the excellent '400 photographs.' Both of these books were printed in Western Europe. For some reason (probably to save money) they decided to go with a printer in Singapore for this book, the quality unfortunately suffered.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a good combination of there story and there art., December 28, 2009

By 

arthur b bear (wisconsin dells wi.) - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Hardcover)

Very good quality art reproductions and well-written personnel story, not too long and rambling, just the meat with some interesting and relevant details. A nice intro to both artists lives, their work and their co-incidental (love-hate) relationship with each other.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, February 6, 2009

By 

Loula Wolf "Art Hound" (Near DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Hardcover)

I received this beautiful book in excellent condition. I had just been to the exhibit it is based upon and I was not disappointed. The book captures the essence of their works with stellar art and photo reproductions. Next best thing to being there! I thought O'Keefe was unbelievable and then turned to the incredible black and white photography of Adams. I love color, but the almost silken quality and exquisite detail of these photos stopped me in my tracks. The affinities, mutual respect, friendship and admiration the two artists had for each other turned out to be instrumental to the continued creativity of both.