The Movement of Clouds around Mount Fuji humour typography and lifestyle

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The Movement of Clouds around Mount Fuji humour typography and lifestyleIn the late 1920s, the Japanese physicist Masanao Abe built an observatory with a view of Mount Fuji. From it, over the course of fifteen years, he recorded the clouds that surrounded the mountain. He was interested in the scientific question of how the air currents around Fuji could be visualized by means of film and photography. Albeit unintentionally, Abes motifs fit into a long iconographic tradition: the mountain and the clouds. more For decades