Alfred Stieglitz :: Songs of the Sky, 1924 / src: The Met

“Beginning in 1922, and then from 1923 to 1934, Stieglitz pointed his lens toward the clouds above Lake George, New York. He eventually made more than two hundred photographs in the series he initially called Songs of the Sky and later Equivalents. In these purposely disorienting and nearly abstract images, Stieglitz sought to arouse in the viewer the emotional equivalent of his own state of mind at the time he took the picture…” from The Metropolitan Museum   

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Eduard Valenta & Josef Maria Eder :: X Ray of Angelfish and Surgeonfish (Zanclus cornutus and Acanthurus nigros), 1896 [Photogravure] / src: The Met

“Eder was the director of an institute for graphic processes and the author of an early history of photography. With the photochemist Valenta, he produced a portfolio in January 1896, less than a month after Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen published his discovery of X-rays. Eder and Valenta’s volume, from which this plate derives, demonstrated the X-ray’s magical ability to reveal the hidden structure of living things.” src: The Met