It stays one of the most important photographic collections in existence. The National Gallery of Art started actively to collect photographs in 1990, but the origins of the gathering lay in a visit made to the Gallery in December 1948 by Georgia O’Keeffe. The artist was deciding where to put the biggest and most necessary collection of pictures by her late husband, Alfred Stieglitz, the seminal American photographer. With keen observation and astute judgment, she noted small details as nicely as the larger symbolic significance of the newly opened museum. The essential elements of the image are normally established immediately …
