Aaron Siskind

(American, 1903–1991)

Aaron Siskind was an American photographer best known for his black-and-white, close range, and aerial photos of surfaces and objects. With the transformative properties of monochromes and their lack of scale or context, Siskind’s photos can seem both sculptural and vast or diminutive and painterly. Their ambiguity has caused spectators to “muse (sometimes in print) in front of a Siskind photograph like analysands in front of ink blots,” wrote art critic Thomas B. Hess. Born on December 4, 1903 in New York, NY, Siskind didn’t begin photographing until he received a camera as a wedding gift and soon after joined the New York Photo League. His work follows in the lineage of Bauhaus photographer László Moholy-Nagy and American photographer Harry Callahan, inspired by their formal and technical approaches to the medium. His works—which range in subject matter from volcanic lava to graffitied walls—are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., among others. Siskind died on February 8, 1991 in Providence, RI.

Aaron Siskind Artworks

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Peru 271, 409 and 471, 1977

Aaron Siskind

Peru 271, 409 and 471, 1977

Sale Date: November 8, 2019

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Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation #36,..., 1956

Aaron Siskind

Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation #36,..., 1956

Sale Date: November 5, 2019

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New York 211 (1978), 1978

Aaron Siskind

New York 211 (1978), 1978

Sale Date: October 17, 2019

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Gloucester (1944), 1944

Aaron Siskind

Gloucester (1944), 1944

Sale Date: October 17, 2019

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New York 2 (Peeling Paint) (1951), 1951

Aaron Siskind

New York 2 (Peeling Paint) (1951), 1951

Sale Date: October 17, 2019

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Street Market, Harlem, 1980

Aaron Siskind

Street Market, Harlem, 1980

Sale Date: October 17, 2019

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Untitled, 1950

Aaron Siskind

Untitled, 1950

Sale Date: September 15, 2019

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Walker Warehouse, 1953

Aaron Siskind

Walker Warehouse, 1953

Sale Date: September 27, 2019

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Chicago 20, 1960

Aaron Siskind

Chicago 20, 1960

Sale Date: October 2, 2019

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CHICAGO 29, 1957

Aaron Siskind

CHICAGO 29, 1957

Sale Date: October 3, 2019

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Untitled from the series Pleasures & Terrors , 1961

Aaron Siskind

Untitled from the series Pleasures & Terrors , 1961

Sale Date: October 4, 2019

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North Carolina, 1951

Aaron Siskind

North Carolina, 1951

Sale Date: October 4, 2019

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New York, West Street 14, 1950

Aaron Siskind

New York, West Street 14, 1950

Sale Date: October 4, 2019

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Los Angeles, 1949

Aaron Siskind

Los Angeles, 1949

Sale Date: October 1, 2019

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Tennessee, 1951

Aaron Siskind

Tennessee, 1951

Sale Date: September 15, 2019

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Mullions of broken window, 1947, 1947

Aaron Siskind

Mullions of broken window, 1947, 1947

Sale Date: November 17, 2018

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Façade, Unoccupied Building, Harlem, 1937, 1937

Aaron Siskind

Façade, Unoccupied Building, Harlem, 1937, 1937

Sale Date: June 18, 2019

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Untitled, 1947

Aaron Siskind

Untitled, 1947

Sale Date: June 8, 2019

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Durango 8, 1961

Aaron Siskind

Durango 8, 1961

Sale Date: May 31, 2019

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Harlem Nightclub Stripper II, 1937

Aaron Siskind

Harlem Nightclub Stripper II, 1937

Sale Date: May 24, 2019

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Chosica 60, 1980

Aaron Siskind

Chosica 60, 1980

Sale Date: May 15, 2019

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Providence 52, 1972

Aaron Siskind

Providence 52, 1972

Sale Date: May 15, 2019

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Peru 81, 1977

Aaron Siskind

Peru 81, 1977

Sale Date: May 10, 2019

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New York 71, 1976

Aaron Siskind

New York 71, 1976

Sale Date: May 10, 2019

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