Equivalents
Submitted by My Viewfinder Blog
After I made this cloud photograph, it made me think of some famous cloud photos. Those who are familiar with the history of photography will know a little bit about Alfred Stieglitz and his series of cloud photographs made between 1925-1934 that he he called “Equivalents”. They are generally recognized as the first photographs intended to free the subject matter from literal interpretation, and are some of the first completely abstract photographic works of art. Apparently, the clouds were a metaphor for something else (hence, the term “equivalents”), although it’s anybody’s guess what Stieglitz was thinking when he made the photographs. Many claim to understand the Equivalents, but to me they are just OK photos of clouds. Perhaps that makes me a rube when it come to art, but at least I’m an honest rube.
Equivalent, Alfred Stieglitz, 1925Oh, what was I thinking when I made my cloud photograph? I just thought it was a pretty cloud.
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