Equivalent, from Set A (Third Set, Print 3) 1929

This photograph of clouds was taken by Alfred Stieglitz, and it kind of reminds me of looking at one of those black and white abstract paintings. Stieglitz’s clouds are full of these soft, billowing shapes, almost like he’s smearing paint across the sky. You can imagine him looking up, framing the shot, waiting for the light to hit just right, right? Maybe he felt like those clouds were saying something to him. It’s like he's trying to capture not just what they look like, but what they feel like too. Think about Rothko, or even some of Gerhard Richter's misty abstracts, how they aim for this kind of pure feeling. Stieglitz's photos are him speaking the same language, but with a camera instead of a brush. It makes you wonder what other secrets the sky has to tell.