Alfred Stieglitz – patterns in the sky

Alfred Stieglitz recognized his achievement in maintaining the realism of photography while addressing the goals of modernism, Duncan Phillips considered Stieglitz’s photographs of clouds important in joining photographic objectivity and personal emotion in his images. Stieglitz photographed clouds from 1922 into the thirties. A symbolic aesthetic underlies these images, which became increasingly abstract equivalents of his own experiences, thoughts, and emotions. 

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my photos inspired by Stieglitz

I liked the outcome of this photo shoot. I edited the images, making them black and white, lowered the exposure and made the clouds look more defined by upping the contrast to match Alfred Stieglitz- Patterns in the Sky.

What I like most about these photos is the contrast between the highlights and shadows and the way they contrast against each other, these photographs were taken in natural day light. I like, in some images, you can see the sunlight bursting through the clouds, or in some way trapped behind it. I like how in each picture the clouds are never the same, making each image different to another, this relates to how he saw his photographs as abstract equivalents of his own experiences, thoughts, and emotions, and how everyone’s thoughts and feelings are different, just like each pattern in the sky.

Alfred Stieglitz is one of the most significant contributors to the history of photography. Stieglitz contributed not only scientific and artistic photographic studies, but also introduced modern art to America and furthered the theory of photography as art.