Song of the Sky—Words by Alfred Stieglitz (#3)

I have found that the use of clouds in my photographs has made people less aware of clouds as clouds in the pictures than when I have portrayed trees or houses or wood or any other objects. In looking at my photographs of clouds, people seem freer to think about the relationships in the pictures than about the subject-matter for its own sake. What I have been trying to say through my photo­graphs is communicated with greatest clarity in the series of Songs of the Sky. The true meaning of the Equivalents comes through without any extraneous pictorial factors intervening between those who look at the pictures and the pictures themselves.

—Alfred Stieglitz in Dorothy Norman's An American Seer, Aperture, 1990

Video directed by Sam Ball, of Citizen Film, in association with the New Media in Jewish Studies Collaborative and the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.

Educators and students: contribute to The Liberating Lens multimedia exhibition, produced by the University of Michigan's Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies in association with Citizen Film. 

Participate here: liberatinglens.org/submit-beyond-stieglitz/