Songs of the Sky or Equivalent 1923 - 1927

Alfred Stieglitz made this photograph, Songs of the Sky or Equivalent, with a camera, sometime in the first half of the 20th century. Look at the grey tones—shifting, elusive, and atmospheric, they must have been so mesmerizing to Stieglitz as he watched the sky. The moment is now captured in print. I think of Georgia O’Keeffe, Stieglitz's wife, and how she also looked intently, searching for something to capture in pigment, line, and form. These artist couples, they teach you about how art can bring people together! And also, how it is to look, really look, with someone else. Did they talk about these skies? Probably! Photography is so interesting to me because it's like a painting—only not! You can see Stieglitz searching, like me, for some-thing, some-where. He wanted to create something equivalent to what he felt when he saw the sky, as he titled it. What do you feel? What does the sky sound like?