Songs of the Sky or Equivalent 1923 - 1929

Alfred Stieglitz made this photograph, Songs of the Sky, to capture something beyond just what's visible, it’s like chasing a feeling. The way the light and dark areas blend – it's all about mood, you know? It's not about the crisp details, but the gradations, the hazy atmosphere. Look at the bottom right corner; there’s this one dark, almost solid shape of cloud that really anchors the whole thing. It’s like a full stop in a sentence, giving weight to all the ethereal fluff above. Stieglitz, in a way, reminds me of Gerhard Richter, later on. Both always pushing their medium to find how much feeling they can squeeze out of it. And that, to me, is what art's really about: endless questions and chasing after something you can never quite catch.