The Big White Cloud

Edward Steichen · 1903

You're looking at The Big White Cloud — a photograph by the American artist Edward Steichen, nineteen oh three. Printed in platinum rather than silver, so the metal sits down among the paper fibres instead of on top of them — that is where the long matte greys come from. Somewhere in there: the clouds, and the river.

Medium Platinum print · Dimensions 15 7/8 × 19 1/2" (40.3 × 49.5 cm) · Credit Gift of the artist

Hanging beside it in Gallery 504: Family Portrait (Clarence H. White and Family)

More by Edward Steichen here: Vitality–Yvette Guilbert, Gertrude Käsebier