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Cloudscape photography is Phillips Collection
More recently, photographers such as Ralph Steiner, Robert Davies and Tzeli Hadjidimitriou have been noted for producing such images.
Gathering Clouds: Photographs from the Nineteenth Century and Today
', an exhibition held from 26 July 2020 to 3 January 2021.
Official Home Page of Cloud Appreciation Society
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Cloudscape photography is photography
Photography is the visual arts, art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is empl ...
of cloud
In meteorology, a cloud is an aerosol consisting of a visible mass of miniature liquid droplets, frozen crystals, or other particles, suspended in the atmosphere of a planetary body or similar space. Water or various other chemicals may ...
s or sky.
An early cloudscape photographer, Belgian photographer Léonard Misonne
Léonard Misonne (; 1 July 1870 14 September 1943) was a Belgian pictorialist photographer. He is known for his landscapes and street scenes with atmospheric skies.
Early life
Born to a wealthy family in Gilly, Belgium in 1870, Léonard Misonne ...
(1870–1943), was noted for his black and white
Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white to produce a range of achromatic brightnesses of grey. It is also known as greyscale in technical settings.
Media
The history of various visual media began with black and white, ...
photographs of heavy skies and dark clouds.
In the early to middle 20th century, American photographer Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz (; January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his photography, Stieglitz was k ...
(1864–1946) created a series of photographs of clouds, called "equivalents" (1925–1931). According to an essay on the series at the Phillips Collection
The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips (art collector), Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Phillips was the ...
website, "A symbolist aesthetic underlies these images, which became increasingly abstract equivalents of his own experiences, thoughts, and emotions".More recently, photographers such as Ralph Steiner, Robert Davies and Tzeli Hadjidimitriou have been noted for producing such images.
See also
*Aerial landscape art
::''(This article concerns painting and other non-photographic media. Otherwise, see aerial photography)''
Aerial landscape art includes paintings and other visual arts which depict or evoke the appearance of a landscape from a perspective abov ...
* Cloud Appreciation Society
* Cloudscape (art)
In art, a cloudscape is the depiction of a view of clouds or the sky. Usually, as in the examples seen here, the clouds are depicted as viewed from the earth, often including just enough of a landscape to suggest scale, orientation, weather con ...
* Landscape
A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes th ...
References
Sources and readings
*Davies, Robert; Christopher Bucklow; "Cloudscapes"; Lisbon (Portugal). Arquivo Fotográfico Municipal. (Lisboa,Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...
: Câmara Municipal, Cultura: Arquivo fotográfico, 1997) orldcat subject headings include "Davies, Robert" and "Photography of clouds"*Steiner, Ralph. Smith College
Smith College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smit ...
. "In pursuit of clouds : images and metaphors"; Museum of Art. ( Albuquerque, N.M.: Distributed by the University of New Mexico
The University of New Mexico (UNM; ) is a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. Founded in 1889 by the New Mexico Territorial Legislature, it is the state's second oldest university, a flagship university in th ...
Press, ©1985) hotography of clouds*Hadjidimitriou, Tzeli. Time fading into clouds , O χρόνος χάθηκε στα σύννεφα. Texts from: N. Vatopoulos, N. Chronas, Tz. Hadjidimitriou, Metaichmio, 2003,
* Eastman Museum, Gathering Clouds: Photographs from the Nineteenth Century and Today
', an exhibition held from 26 July 2020 to 3 January 2021.
External links
Official Home Page of Cloud Appreciation Society
Clouds Photography by genre {{photo-stub