In early February 1976, the phone rang at Ansel’s and I picked it up. A squeaky voice on the other end asked if Ansel were there, and I politely asked who was calling. The voice said "Georgia O’Keeffe" and I immediately answered, “Yes he’s here, let me get him for you!” Ansel spoke with her for quite a while, and after they had hung up, he quietly said, “O’Keeffe has some business in the area and will be staying with us for about a week!"
During her stay and two days after Ansel’s 74th birthday, he had me get out the Hasselblad – he was going to photograph O’Keeffe and her assistant Juan Hamilton. Ansel posed O’Keeffe in a chair near a living room window and made several exposures. O’Keeffe then moved to a chair just inside the window and Juan took her place in the chair she had been sitting in. I was able to make a few photographs of my own and it was wonderful to be able to capture this moment of Ansel photographing Juan, with O’Keeffe in the background! Print #1 of this image is now in the permanent collection of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Nikkormat FTN Kodak Tri-X Pan
General Edition Information:
Limited Edition Prints signed and numbered in an edition of 100. Each print is made personally by me, printed either on Ilford Multigrade Classic fiber paper and selenium toned or on Canson Platine paper using a Canon Pro-1000 printer and my personal printing profiles. Mounted and over-matted on 4-ply or 8-ply museum board using the most current industry standards for archival permanence.
Open Edition Archival pigment prints made personally by me on Canson Rag Photographique paper using a canon Pro-1000 and my personal printing profiles. Digitally signed, not numbered.
Sizing Information:
8x10 Open Edition Archival Pigment Print: Image size approximately 8x10, over-matted to 14x17 on 4-ply museum board.
11x14 Limited Edition: Image size approximately 9x11.5 inches, over-matted to 16x20 on 4-ply museum board.
16x20 Limited Edition: Image size approximately 14x18, over-matted to 22x28 on 4-ply museum board.