in June of 1997 while attending a course at the Santa Fe Workshop, I met and got to know model and photographer Patti Levey. While working with her, I was stuck, by how much Patti looked like Georgia O’Keeffe looked when the latter was Patti’s age—i.e., in her early thirty’s.

On September 19, 1997, at the Vista Clara Ranch & Spa (at Galisteo, NM), I did another photo shoot with Patti. We had both had an opportunity to study and reflect on the then recently re-published Georgia O’Keeffe: A Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz (1997: MMA/Abrams) and we decided to do a shoot in a rustic and retro-style to recapture the feeling of what it must have been like when Alfred did his portraits of Georgia in the 1920’s and 30’s. For three hours in the afternoon, as storm clouds threatened, Patti and I played the roles of Georgia and Alfred, using first black and white, and then color slide film. The shoot was a wonderful collaborative effort.

Patti and I are most thankful for the kind hospitality of Kaye Sanford at Vista Clara.

These as some of the black and white portrait images I recorded during the “Dreaming of Georgia” shoot.