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.

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Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation 99, 1961

Aaron Siskind

Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation 99, 1961

Sale Date: November 21, 2014

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Harlem, Bedroom through Doorway, 1940

Aaron Siskind

Harlem, Bedroom through Doorway, 1940

Sale Date: December 3, 2014

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Durango, Mexico, 1961

Aaron Siskind

Durango, Mexico, 1961

Sale Date: November 25, 2014

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Harlem, 1935

Aaron Siskind

Sale Date: November 13, 2014

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Glouster (Variant), 1948

Aaron Siskind

Glouster (Variant), 1948

Sale Date: November 13, 2014

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Selected Images (8 works), 1945–1965

Aaron Siskind

Selected Images (8 works), 1945–1965

Sale Date: November 18, 2014

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Yuma, Arizona 1, 1949

Aaron Siskind

Yuma, Arizona 1, 1949

Sale Date: November 18, 2014

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Chicago 32, 1949

Aaron Siskind

Chicago 32, 1949

Sale Date: November 18, 2014

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Untitled, 1966

Aaron Siskind

Untitled, 1966

Sale Date: November 18, 2014

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Buttressed Wall, Church, Alcoman, Mexico, 1955

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Buttressed Wall, Church, Alcoman, Mexico, 1955

Sale Date: November 18, 2014

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Uruapan, Mexico, 1955

Aaron Siskind

Uruapan, Mexico, 1955

Sale Date: November 18, 2014

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Rome 76, 1963

Aaron Siskind

Rome 76, 1963

Sale Date: October 16, 2014

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Untitled (Gloucester 28), 1944

Aaron Siskind

Untitled (Gloucester 28), 1944

Sale Date: October 16, 2014

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Peru 46, 1981

Aaron Siskind

Peru 46, 1981

Sale Date: October 16, 2014

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Five Peru Photographs (portfolio of 5), 1977

Aaron Siskind

Five Peru Photographs (portfolio of 5), 1977

Sale Date: October 17, 2014

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Lima 57 (Homage to F.K.), 1975

Aaron Siskind

Lima 57 (Homage to F.K.), 1975

Sale Date: October 17, 2014

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Chicago, 1949

Aaron Siskind

Chicago, 1949

Sale Date: October 17, 2014

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N.Y. 2, 1951

Aaron Siskind

Sale Date: October 17, 2014

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Chicago, 1957, 1957

Aaron Siskind

Chicago, 1957, 1957

Sale Date: September 16, 2014

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Selected Images (10 works), 1947–1978

Aaron Siskind

Selected Images (10 works), 1947–1978

Sale Date: October 1, 2014

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Natural Forms, Granite Dells, Arizona, 1949

Aaron Siskind

Natural Forms, Granite Dells, Arizona, 1949

Sale Date: October 1, 2014

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Gloucester 25, 1944

Aaron Siskind

Gloucester 25, 1944

Sale Date: October 1, 2014

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Uruapan, Mexico, 1955

Aaron Siskind

Uruapan, Mexico, 1955

Sale Date: October 1, 2014

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Selected Images (3 works), 1948–1949

Aaron Siskind

Selected Images (3 works), 1948–1949

Sale Date: October 1, 2014

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