Songs of the Sky A2 1923

Alfred Stieglitz made this photograph, Songs of the Sky A2, with a camera, light, and some photo paper. Looking at this image, I imagine Stieglitz staring up, finding rhythms in the roiling clouds. They billow and stretch like wet paint, dense and gray, giving way to brighter patches. It's like he's composing music, finding harmonies in the sky's shifting moods. I wonder if he was thinking about other artists, like Turner, who tried to capture the sublime in nature? This photograph reminds me that artists are always in conversation across time, riffing off each other's ideas, pushing the boundaries of what art can be. Stieglitz wasn't just documenting the sky; he was expressing something deeper, maybe something about the human condition.