![Alfred Stieglitz, [Music: A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs, No. 1]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/a3a0bf4e-47a0-48f8-9b41-cf6a073cd9d8/full/!1400,/0/default.jpg)
[Music: A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs, No. 1]
1922
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 18.7 × 24 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-823917
When Alfred Stieglitz began to photograph clouds, he wrote to a friend: "I had told Miss [Georgia] O'Keeffe I wanted a series of photographs which when seen by [composer] Ernest Bloch he would exclaim: Music! music! Man, why that is music!" In 1922, amidst significant personal changes, Stieglitz created his first series of cloud studies, alternately titled *Music: A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs;* *Clouds in Ten Movements;* and *Music: A Series of Ten Pictures*. These images were a precursor to Stieglitz's "Equivalents" series, in which he sought to depict emotional states through visual representations. This foreboding landscape with its dominating, brooding black sky evokes the personal, familial tumult then occurring in Stieglitz's life.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- 1922 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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