Muybridge completed extensive cloud studies.
What is at stake in Alfred Stieglitz’s series, Equivalences? In Stieglitz’s clouds, photography becomes its own representative process and depicts its own constitutive method. But the famous Stieglitz was able to create these "self-portraits of photography by itself" thanks to the outlines of the clouds, by showing how their ethereal shapes are projected onto the celestial expanse, enabling this expanse to act as a background and to reveal these arabesque impressions of the photographic act.
measure of infinity / bottomless subject / a corpuscular substance without shape or body
See also: Philippe Dubois
What is at stake in Alfred Stieglitz’s series, Equivalences? In Stieglitz’s clouds, photography becomes its own representative process and depicts its own constitutive method. But the famous Stieglitz was able to create these "self-portraits of photography by itself" thanks to the outlines of the clouds, by showing how their ethereal shapes are projected onto the celestial expanse, enabling this expanse to act as a background and to reveal these arabesque impressions of the photographic act.
measure of infinity / bottomless subject / a corpuscular substance without shape or body
See also: Philippe Dubois
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