I Looked & Looked: Hardcover Edition

I Looked & Looked


by Magali Duzant

I Looked & Looked is a book inspired by a pair of love letters between two artists who unknowingly described the moon to each other on the same night. On September 25, 1923, photographer Alfred Stieglitz wrote to painter Georgia O’Keeffe detailing a full white moon over Lake George, New York. On the same night, she penned a description of a pink moon, as witnessed from the shore of York Beach, Maine.

Inspired by the synchronicity of this romantic exchange, artist and writer Magali Duzant called upon twenty creatives to describe the full moon, in anonymity, on the same night. The date was October 29, 2012, which brought the unexpected force of Hurricane Sandy and led to wildly varying accounts of a single sky. Dispatching from vantage points across the country and beyond, some describe a glowing orb or kaleidoscopic halo, while others in New York saw no moon at all. I Looked & Looked weaves these unique, yet collective, experiences together with Duzant’s own images in a lyrical reflection on interconnectedness and our relationship to the night sky.

The special hardcover edition of I Looked & Looked was published for the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the love letters exchanged between Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz on September 25, 1923. This new edition contains several additional images, including Pink Moon over Water, by Georgia O’Keeffe, and photographs from the archives of Alfred Stieglitz, John William Draper, and Draper’s son, Henry Draper. The hardcover format features an iridescent midnight-blue cover foil-stamped with a pink moon and a white moon, while the inside is printed on luminescent white paper and includes a turquoise ribbon to mark your favorite passages.