Cloud Album: Selected Topics The Cloud Album exhibition brings together photographs created by a wide variety of producers from around the world: artists, pilots, amateur and professional photographers, photojournalists, astronomers and meteorologists. The participation of amateurs, linked to the circumstantial and unpredictable nature of atmospheric events and data, has always been a characteristic of meteorological science. Also reflected in the exhibition is a wide range of photographic processes and formats, from salt paper prints to silver gelatin processes, albumen prints, photomechanical processes and non-silver ones such as cyanotypes. And of course the full range of cloud formations: cirrus, stratus, cumulus, nimbus, altocumulus, lenticular altocumulus, etc. The viewer will also see that photography has brought to the fore new clouds linked to society’s industrialization, its conflicts and economies: explosion clouds, smoke clouds, contrail clouds, atomic and other weaponized clouds, artificial and chemical clouds. Clouds were once thrones for the gods. Viewers of Cloud Album will step into the wondrously diverse, astonishing world of our constantly changing skies.
Cloud Album The title Cloud Album refers to a stunning scientific album initiated by the Belgian meteorologist Jean Vincent (1851–1932), who studied cloud classification and practiced photography for more than twenty years, becoming the first director of the Institut Royal Météorologique when it was established in Brussels in 1913.
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