What made Alfred Stieglitz's photography special was his brilliant ability to discover visual poetry in the everyday. In this striking composition, the delicate hand of his wife, artist Georgia O'Keeffe, is juxtaposed with the robust wheel well of a streamlined, 1930s automobile. The dramatically cropped view of the automobile recasts the familiar object into a barely-recognizable abstraction of geometric form and reflective surfaces.
Photographer: Alfred Stieglitz
Date: 1933
Image: DM-007A