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Equivalent

Photograph
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

Category
Object type
Titles
  • Equivalent (assigned by artist)
  • Equivalents (series title)
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.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 120mm
  • Image width: 93mm
  • Mount height: 36.5cm
  • Mount width: 29.5cm
  • Bespoke stieglitz frame height: 380mm
  • Bespoke stieglitz frame width: 303mm
  • Bespoke stieglitz frame depth: 25mm
Marks and inscriptions
259E (on mount; upper left verso; graphite (by Georgia O'Keeffe))
Credit line
Gift of the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
Subjects depicted
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’.
Associated objects
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
Collection
Accession number
E.891-2003

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Record createdNovember 25, 2005
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