Alfred Stieglitz was an art dealer, publisher and advocate of the modernist movement, which happened during the later 90s and early 20s and most often associated with the poet Dario. These poets were often inspired by French symbolists and Parnassians with their use of daring metaphors and used to express spiritual values and sensuous imagery.

Stieglitz thought photography should be a fine art, he also organised and announced the existence of Photo secession and they wanted to break traditional values of photography wanting to express photography in more of an art form and worked in more of a pictorial style where there was an emphasis on beauty of the subject matter the tonality and different compositions not just the documentary of reality.

During the year of 1922, Stieglitz began to photograph clouds and slightly tilting his camera and it captured a different angle, this is something I might experiment with. Stieglitz created photographic images that were dizzying abstract images in their ethereal forms. These works he produced were a culmination of everything he had learn in the past as a photographer.

Through the clouds, he wanted to show the philosophy of life showing the photographs were not sue to subject matter, and the clouds are there for everyone to enjoy and it is not something that is owned by anyone. During several years, Stieglitz made some cloud studies, producing them on large Gelatine silver prints.​​​​​​​

Rater that describing the surface of something, the photographs works expressed pure emotion and was parallel with the inner state of the artist,, which is quite interesting and is something I wanted to focus on within some of my work.

In his work he argued that this visual art could represent the same as non representational work and for these works, Stieglitz music was quite the inspiration shown from some of the titles - Songs of the sky 1923, although he did not limit himself to the clouds as there is some other work including a photograph of a castrated male horse, which was a metaphor for the American culture, whilst the clouds represented his emotions.

These were introduced in 1870s and were beginning to dominate photography, commercially produced, the gelatin silver print paper includes a layer of silver salts suspended in a ayer of gelatin above the paper. These prints are widely recognisable for the sharpness and detail in the black and white photographs.

Hedge and grasses Lake George, 1933

I quite liked this photograph as there is the slight contrast between the grass and the trees at the back which are much darker and contrasted. There is lots of different textures in the image that I found interesting and photographs natural forms which I am looking at in some perspectives of my work. The grass looks calm and tranquil and I'm quite inspired my this image and in on of my later photoshoots I am going to try to capture something like this which evokes feeling of tranquility. 

These are all his works produced from equivalents are from clouds, Stieglitz shot in black and white where as I am going to experiment and shoot in colour as I have mostly shot in black and white and see what fits best with the nature of the work and where I am going to go forward from that point. All these different clouds have different formations and ther are different clouds such as cirrus which are quite wispy and interesting.