Equivalent
Photograph
1925 (photographed)
1925 (photographed)
| Artist/Maker |
Alfred Stieglitz worked on a series of pictures of the sky from 1923 until 1936. He titled them initially Songs of the Sky and then Equivalents, as if to suggest that the factual subject of a photograph need not be the end in itself. Like notes of music, it could act as the point of departure for a parallel psychological or emotional state in the viewer. There is no fixed reading as to what the image may mean. On the reverse of some of the Equivalents, Stieglitz wrote ‘all ways are up’.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Gelatin-silver print |
| Brief description | Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz, 'Equivalent', gelatin silver print, 1925 |
| Physical description | Black and white photograph of a black sky with little bit of white cloud to top right. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 259E (on mount; upper left verso; graphite (by Georgia O'Keeffe)) |
| Credit line | Gift of the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation |
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| Summary | Alfred Stieglitz worked on a series of pictures of the sky from 1923 until 1936. He titled them initially Songs of the Sky and then Equivalents, as if to suggest that the factual subject of a photograph need not be the end in itself. Like notes of music, it could act as the point of departure for a parallel psychological or emotional state in the viewer. There is no fixed reading as to what the image may mean. On the reverse of some of the Equivalents, Stieglitz wrote ‘all ways are up’. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2002., vol. 2, 1012 pp., iIl. ISBN 0810935333 |
| Other number | 1107 - Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set |
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| Accession number | E.891-2003 |
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| Record created | November 25, 2005 |
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