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)

Club Barron, Harlem, 1937–1939

Aaron Siskind

Club Barron, Harlem, 1937–1939

Sale Date: October 28, 2008

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Rome, 1963

Aaron Siskind

Sale Date: October 21, 2008

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Louise 30, 1974

Aaron Siskind

Louise 30, 1974

Sale Date: October 21, 2008

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From pleasures and terrors of levitation 37..., 1953

Aaron Siskind

From pleasures and terrors of levitation 37..., 1953

Sale Date: October 21, 2008

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Gloucester 28, 1944

Aaron Siskind

Gloucester 28, 1944

Sale Date: October 21, 2008

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Los Angeles, 1949

Aaron Siskind

Los Angeles, 1949

Sale Date: October 21, 2008

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Tabernacle city I, 1935

Aaron Siskind

Tabernacle city I, 1935

Sale Date: October 21, 2008

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Chicago 59, 1952

Aaron Siskind

Chicago 59, 1952

Sale Date: October 17, 2008

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San Luis Potosi, 1961

Aaron Siskind

San Luis Potosi, 1961

Sale Date: October 17, 2008

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Martha's Vineyard, 1954

Aaron Siskind

Martha's Vineyard, 1954

Sale Date: October 17, 2008

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Pleasures and terrors of levitation 63, 1956

Aaron Siskind

Pleasures and terrors of levitation 63, 1956

Sale Date: October 15, 2008

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Chicago, 1952

Aaron Siskind

Chicago, 1952

Sale Date: October 14, 2008

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Harlan, Kentucky, 1951

Aaron Siskind

Harlan, Kentucky, 1951

Sale Date: October 14, 2008

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Gloucester, 1944

Aaron Siskind

Gloucester, 1944

Sale Date: October 14, 2008

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Selected images (5 works), 1951–1963

Aaron Siskind

Selected images (5 works), 1951–1963

Sale Date: October 14, 2008

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Pleasures and terrors of levitation (3..., 1953–1954

Aaron Siskind

Pleasures and terrors of levitation (3..., 1953–1954

Sale Date: October 14, 2008

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Rome, Arch of Constantine, 1963

Aaron Siskind

Rome, Arch of Constantine, 1963

Sale Date: May 22, 2008

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Gloucester, 1944

Aaron Siskind

Gloucester, 1944

Sale Date: May 22, 2008

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Acolman, 1955

Aaron Siskind

Acolman, 1955

Sale Date: June 14, 2008

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Durango, Mexico, 1970–1979

Aaron Siskind

Durango, Mexico, 1970–1979

Sale Date: May 29, 2008

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Ohne Titel (Maiskolben), 1950

Aaron Siskind

Ohne Titel (Maiskolben), 1950

Sale Date: May 29, 2008

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Boy's Head, Harlem (+ 2 others; 3 works , 1932–1959

Aaron Siskind

Boy's Head, Harlem (+ 2 others; 3 works , 1932–1959

Sale Date: May 21, 2008

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Abstraction, 1950

Aaron Siskind

Abstraction, 1950

Sale Date: May 15, 2008

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Terracotta, III, 13, 1960

Aaron Siskind

Terracotta, III, 13, 1960

Sale Date: April 9, 2008

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