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Alfred Stieglitz, Songs of the Sky, No. 2 / Equivalent, Portrait of Georgia, No. 3
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Alfred Stieglitz

Songs of the Sky, No. 2 / Equivalent, Portrait of Georgia, No. 3

1923

Current Collection

J. Paul Getty Museum

Los Angeles, United States

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
9.2 × 11.8 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-484010

Stieglitz, a great promoter of Modernism in America and an advocate of photography as art, began pointing his camera skyward in 1922. His images of evanescent clouds were meant to express his own fleeting emotional states and reflect the dynamism of a world in constant flux. Originally Stieglitz titled them "songs of the sky," but he later came to call them "equivalents of my most profound life experience." The works focus on abstract qualities of proportion, rhythm, and harmony, presenting pure form as music for the eye.

Provenance

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Registry history

  • 1923 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs

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