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

Aaron Siskind (1,918 results)

Kentucky 15, 1951

Aaron Siskind

Kentucky 15, 1951

Sale Date: April 6, 2017

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Selected Images from Harlem Document, 1932–1940

Aaron Siskind

Selected Images from Harlem Document, 1932–1940

Sale Date: April 6, 2017

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Portfolio entitled, 1967

Aaron Siskind

Portfolio entitled, 1967

Sale Date: February 14, 2017

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Chicago, 1960

Aaron Siskind

Chicago, 1960

Sale Date: February 14, 2017

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Durango 8, 1961

Aaron Siskind

Durango 8, 1961

Sale Date: February 14, 2017

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Harlem Night Club, from Harlem Document, 1937

Aaron Siskind

Harlem Night Club, from Harlem Document, 1937

Sale Date: February 14, 2017

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New York, 1947

Aaron Siskind

New York, 1947

Sale Date: February 14, 2017

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Portfolio entitled Tabernacle City..., 1935–1939

Aaron Siskind

Portfolio entitled Tabernacle City..., 1935–1939

Sale Date: February 14, 2017

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Acolman, 1955

Aaron Siskind

Acolman, 1955

Sale Date: December 2, 2016

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Arizpe, 1955

Aaron Siskind

Sale Date: December 2, 2016

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New York 2, 1947

Aaron Siskind

New York 2, 1947

Sale Date: December 2, 2016

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Chicago 69, 1960

Aaron Siskind

Chicago 69, 1960

Sale Date: December 2, 2016

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Yucatan 3, 1955

Aaron Siskind

Yucatan 3, 1955

Sale Date: December 2, 2016

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Harlem, 1935

Aaron Siskind

Sale Date: November 23, 2016

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Lima 80 1975, 1975

Aaron Siskind

Lima 80 1975, 1975

Sale Date: November 22, 2016

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[Peace-Meals], from the Harlem Series, 1937

Aaron Siskind

[Peace-Meals], from the Harlem Series, 1937

Sale Date: November 22, 2016

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[Watermelon Man], from the Harlem Serie, 1940

Aaron Siskind

[Watermelon Man], from the Harlem Serie, 1940

Sale Date: November 22, 2016

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Los Angeles 3, 1949, 1949

Aaron Siskind

Los Angeles 3, 1949, 1949

Sale Date: November 10, 2016

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Chicago 10, 1957

Aaron Siskind

Chicago 10, 1957

Sale Date: October 25, 2016

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Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation, #491, 1954

Aaron Siskind

Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation, #491, 1954

Sale Date: October 25, 2016

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Rome 2 (Homage to F.K.), 1973

Aaron Siskind

Rome 2 (Homage to F.K.), 1973

Sale Date: October 25, 2016

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Gloucester 1H, 1944

Aaron Siskind

Gloucester 1H, 1944

Sale Date: October 25, 2016

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Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation #52, 1956

Aaron Siskind

Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation #52, 1956

Sale Date: November 12, 2016

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Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation #55, 1956

Aaron Siskind

Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation #55, 1956

Sale Date: November 12, 2016

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