(3) In 1912, he published an excerpt in Camera Work from Wassily Kandinsky’s book Concerning the Spiritual in Art. In his early years in Europe he greatly appreciated the composers and painters of the German Romantic period. It began with a simple statement from the artist, “I wanted to photograph clouds to find out what I had learned in forty years about photography.” (1) Inspired by the work of O’Keeffe, “whose paintings were deeply expressive of her visual, emotional and psychological experiences,” (2) Stieglitz developed his theory of clouds being the equivalent of his life experience.įurther investigation into Stieglitz’s photographs of clouds reveals a complex range of influences and readings of these fascinating images.
Stieglitz first photographed clouds in 1922 when he was 58 years old. Perhaps, his most famous works are the 300 or so photographs of his wife and muse, the artist Georgia O’Keeffe.
In his Lake George years, Stieglitz photographed friends that visited, the farmhouse, sheds, fields, grassy knolls, clouds and dying poplar trees. In New York, the symbols of modernity such as skyscrapers, snow covered streets, views of city buildings from his window, trains & railways, ferries & ocean liners, depict a changing, bustling world. Stieglitz repeatedly used a number of motifs in his work. Alfred Stieglitz, Equivalent, 1929. Gelatin Silver Print, 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.
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