Music—A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs, No. VI
1922
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 24 x 18.8 cm (9 7/16 x 7 3/8 in.) sheet: 25.3 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.) mat: 56.3 x 45 cm (22 3/16 x 17 11/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1949.3.834
Art Historical Context
Alfred Stieglitz's *Music—A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs, No. VI* (1922) captures the ethereal beauty of clouds drifting across the sky, rendered in a pristine gelatin silver print measuring nearly 10 by 7 inches. As a pivotal figure in American photography, Stieglitz championed the medium as a fine art, founding Gallery 291 in New York to showcase modernist works. This image is part of his groundbreaking "Equivalents" series, where he photographed clouds not as mere landscapes but as abstract expressions of inner emotions, akin to musical compositions—hence the title *Music*. Stieglitz'...
About the Artist
Alfred Stieglitz · 1864–1946
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a pioneering American photographer, art dealer, publisher, and advocate for the Modernist movement who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to German Jewish immigrant parents, Stieglitz spent his formative years studying mechanical engineering in Berlin, where he discovered photography in ...