Cloudscape photography

Cloudscape photography is photography of clouds or sky.

Colourful clouds

An early cloudscape photographer, Belgian photographer Léonard Misonne (1870–1943), was noted for his black and white photographs of heavy skies and dark clouds.[1]

In the early to middle 20th 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, "A symbolist aesthetic underlies these images, which became increasingly abstract equivalents of his own experiences, thoughts, and emotions".[2] More recently, photographers such as Ralph Steiner, Robert Davies and Tzeli Hadjidimitriou (see catalogues listed below) have been noted for producing such images.

Examples
  • Cloudscape photography of Chandigarh
  • Cloudscape photo taken in southern India
  • Cloudscape taken for the Clouds 365 Project in Frisco, Texas, US.

See also

References
  1. Artnet.com
  2. Phillips Collection Archived 2007-09-14 at the Wayback Machine

Sources and readings
  • Davies, Robert; Christopher Bucklow; "Cloudscapes"; Lisbon (Portugal). Arquivo Fotográfico Municipal. (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. "In pursuit of clouds : images and metaphors"; Museum of Art. (Albuquerque, N.M.: Distributed by the University of New Mexico Press, ©1985) ISBN 0-9615132-0-9 [Photography of clouds]
  • Hadjidimitriou, Tzeli. Time fading into clouds | O χρόνος χάθηκε στα σύννεφα. Texts from: N. Vatopoulos, N. Chronas, Tz. Hadjidimitriou, Metaichmio, 2003, ISBN 960-375-634-2


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