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Alfred Stieglitz
American,1864-1946

Equivalent, 1923
Gelatin silver print

Purchase with funds from
Georgia-Pacific Corporation, 1985.228

Alfred Stieglitz took photographs of clouds at
his country house at Lake George in upstate
New York. He called these photos "equivalents,"
meaning that the scene was not the subject of
the pictures as much as "an equivalent of a state
of mind or experience." He wanted "through
clouds to put down my philosophy of life."