Cloudscape (photography)
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Cloudscape photography is photography showing a view of clouds or sky.
The Belgian photographer Léonard Misonne (1870-1943) is noted for his black and white photographs where heavy skies and dark clouds dominate the image (he even used to add clouds in the darkroom). [1]
In the early to middle twentieth century, American photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) created a series of photographs of clouds, called "equivalents" (1925-1931). According to an essay on the series at the Phillips Collection website (see external links), "A symbolist aesthetic underlies these images, which became increasingly abstract equivalents of his own experiences, thoughts, and emotions." [2]
More recently, American photographers such as Robert Davies and Ralph Steiner have been noted for producing such images, featured in solo exhibitions concentrating on cloudscape photography (see catalogues and links below). Contemporary Greek photographer Tzeli Hadjidimitriou has created a book entirely on this theme, entitled Time fading into clouds (2003).
[edit] See also
- Nature photography
- Cloud Appreciation Society
- Landscape
- Cloudscape (art) (This and the two links following deal primarily with painting.)
- Landscape art
- Aerial landscape art
- Wildlife photography
[edit] References
- Davies, Robert; Christopher Bucklow; Lisbon (Portugal). Arquivo Fotográfico Municipal. Cloudscapes (Lisboa, Portugal : Câmara Municipal, Cultura : Arquivo fotográfico, 1997) ISBN 972-97226-2-5 [Worldcat subject headings include "Davies, Robert" and "Photography of clouds"]
- Steiner, Ralph. Smith College. Museum of Art. In pursuit of clouds : images and metaphors (Albuquerque, N.M. : Distributed by the University of New Mexico Press, ©1985) ISBN 0-9615132-0-9 [Photography of clouds]
- Time fading into clouds | O χρόνος χάθηκε στα σύννεφα. Texts from: N. Vatopoulos, N. Chronas, Tz. Hadjidimitriou, Metaichmio, 2003, ISBN 9603756342
[edit] External links
- Cloudscapes: "a collaborative photoblog of cloud and sky images"
- IMAGE of Antimony: an aerial cloudscape photograph by Robert Davies, featured in Blindspot magazine
- IMAGE of a cloudscape photograph by Ralph Steiner from "Ralph Steiner: In Pursuit of Clouds", an exhibition at Marquette University's Haggerty Museum of Art (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), May 15-July 5, 1998
- Official Home Page of Cloud Appreciation Society, featuring many cloudscape photography images
- Phillips Collection essay on Stieglitz's cloud photographs, the "Equivalents" series.
- Cloudscape photograph image from Tzeli Hadjidimitriou's 2003 book, Time Fading into Clouds
