Triquivalents

Seventy plus years ago Alfred Stieglitz began creating what would become one of his most important contributions to modern photography and art. He termed them Equivalents. They were series of photographs of clouds. Until that time the subject had ruled and at times overruled the practice of photography. Even an accomplished and talented a photographer as Stieglitz was demeaned by statements that the quality of his photographs was due more to the strength of his subjects rather than his abilities.

"I wanted to photograph clouds to find out what I had learned in forty years about photography. Through clouds to put down my philosophy of life – to show that (the success of) my photographs (was) not due to subject matter – not to special trees or faces, or interiors, to special privileges – clouds were there for everyone..." Alfred Stieglitz

The Equivalents were intended to void of all signs or symbols of interpretation and so are considered the first truly abstract photographs.
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The idea of creating a photograph that is purely and solely a depiction of sensation is a life time ambition. Still trying -