Publisher's Synopsis
Friends, lovers, confidantes, collaborators - the multi-facteted relationship between husband and wife takes on another dimension when the couple are also artist and muse.
In MODEL WIFE, Arthur Ollman explores the imagery and photographic history of nine twentieth-century photographers who used their wives as models over a period of years. Ranging from stark nudes on the sand to aproned mothers in the kitchen, MODEL WIFE is a stunning and compelling photography book.
The featured photographers and their wives include Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe, Harry Callahan and Eleanor Callahan and Nicholas Nixon and Bebe Nixon. New text by Ollman takes an interesting viewpoint on photography and marriage in an introductory overview and essays on each couple.
