Aaron Siskind
- Introduction
- Aaron Siskind (December 4, 1903 – February 8, 1991) was an American photographer whose work focuses on the details of things, presented as flat surfaces to create a new image independent of the original subject. He was closely involved with, if not a part of, the abstract expressionist movement, and was close friends with painters Mark Rothko, Franz Kline (whose own breakthrough show at the Charles Egan Gallery occurred in the same period as Siskind's one-man shows at the same gallery), and Willem De Kooning.
- Wikidata
- Q302714
- Introduction
- Born 4 December 1903; died 8 February 1991. Siskind took his first photographs while on vacation in Bermuda in 1930. In 1932 Siskind worked as a freelance photographer. In 1935 Siskind photographed the Harlem district of New York City, New York for the "Harlem Document". From 1951 to 1959 Siskind served as a professor of photography at Illinois Institute of Technology. In 1959 he became director of the photography department, a position he held until 1970. Siskind was a founding member of the Society for Photographic Education in 1963. In 1981 Siskind photographed in Peru.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Teacher, Photographer
- Name
- Aaron Siskind
- Ulan
- 500024299
Exhibitions
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520: Picturing America
Ongoing
MoMA
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409: Abstract Lens
Oct 21, 2019–Sep 20, 2020
MoMA
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Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends
May 21–Sep 17, 2017
MoMA
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The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel
Oct 29, 2016–May 7, 2017
MoMA
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One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North
Apr 3–Sep 7, 2015
MoMA
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Aaron Siskind has
38 exhibitionsonline.
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Aaron Siskind Boy's Head 1932
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Aaron Siskind Savoy Dancers from the series Harlem Document 1936
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Aaron Siskind Lafayette Theatre 1938
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Aaron Siskind Facades 1938
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Aaron Siskind Boys in Empty Tenement c. 1935
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Aaron Siskind Street Scene c. 1935
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Aaron Siskind Church Interior 1938
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Aaron Siskind Martha's Vineyard 1940
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Aaron Siskind Untitled 1932-40
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Aaron Siskind Street Scene I 1940
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Aaron Siskind Wishing Tree c. 1937
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Aaron Siskind Night Club I c. 1937
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Aaron Siskind Watermelon Man 1940
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Aaron Siskind Girl with Clothes Form c. 1937
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Aaron Siskind Lady and Lamp 1940
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Aaron Siskind Street Scene 4 c. 1937
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Aaron Siskind Backyard 1940
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Aaron Siskind Lafayette Theater I c. 1937
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Aaron Siskind Facade, Unoccupied Building c. 1937
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Aaron Siskind Air Shaft 1940
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Aaron Siskind Man in Mirror 1940
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Aaron Siskind Peace Meals c. 1937
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Aaron Siskind Man with Lamp 1940
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Aaron Siskind Apollo Theatre c. 1937
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Aaron Siskind Man in Bed 1940
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Aaron Siskind Street Scene 2 1940
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Aaron Siskind Brothers c. 1937
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Aaron Siskind Street Market c. 1937
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Aaron Siskind Grocery Store 1940
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Aaron Siskind Bedroom through doorway 1940
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Aaron Siskind Gloucester 1944
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Aaron Siskind Martha's Vineyard 1946
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Aaron Siskind New York 1946
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Aaron Siskind Chicago 1 1948
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Aaron Siskind Palm Springs 5 1949
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Aaron Siskind Jerome 2 1949
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Aaron Siskind Gloucester 12 1949
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Aaron Siskind Wickenberg, Arizona 1949
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Aaron Siskind New Jersey 5 1950
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Aaron Siskind Martha's Vineyard 11 1950
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Aaron Siskind Martha's Vineyard 13 1950
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Aaron Siskind Bronx I 1950
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Aaron Siskind New York 6 1951
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Aaron Siskind Chicago 8 1951
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Aaron Siskind New York I 1951
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Aaron Siskind Chicago 1952
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Aaron Siskind Chicago 1952
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Aaron Siskind Peeling Paint c. 1950
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