My sister Susan and I went to the Denver Art Museum yesterday afternoon to see two photography exhibits. The first was Georgia O'Keeffe, Photographer, which is on display through November 6th. I enjoyed seeing it, but to be honest, Georgia O'Keeffe was not that great a photographer. She seemed to use photography to help her compose her paintings. However, there were a lot of photographs taken of her in the exhibit, such as the one on the left that Susan is admiring, and those, along with some of her paintings and other items connected with her life in Abiquiu, New Mexico were well worth viewing. O'Keeffe did seem to like decorating her home with animal skulls, however. What do they say about the thin line between genius and madness?
The other photography exhibit was Modern Women/Modern Vision, which features the work of many famous female photographers, including Diane Arbus, Imogene Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, and Margaret Bourke-White, who was hired to photograph the Chrysler Building as it was being constructed, and can be seen in the photo on the right on top of a huge gargoyle eagle. After the Chrysler Building was completed, Bourke-White rented a studio there on the 61st floor, and often went out the window to take photographs. Exactly what I would have done in the same situation. "Just don't look down" has always been my motto.
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