handsome women

February 10.2009

In conversation with the model, she told us that she is not always fond of having her portrait done as her face in repose looks stern or sad when it's not how she's feeling.  She likes to think of her face as handsome which she has lived with since she was a little girl saying "It's not always been an easy face to live with."  When I returned home from class that day a friend had sent me Alfred Stieglitz's photos of Georgia O'Keeffe, another handsome woman.  The placement of these two events was magnetic.