THE MOVEMENT OF CLOUDS AROUND MOUNT FUJI

In the late 1920s, the Japanese physicist Masanao Abe built an observatory with a view of Mount Fuji. From it, over the course of fi fteen years, he recorded the clouds that surrounded the mountain. He was interested in the scientific question of how the air curren ts around Fuji could be visualized by means of film and photography. Albeit unintentionally, Abes motifs fit into a long iconograph ic tradition: the mountain and the clouds. For decades his archive was left untouched in a Tokyo garden shed. Helmut Völter, who dis covered A...[Read more]