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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Chicago 53, 1952

Aaron Siskind

Chicago 53, 1952

Sale Date: November 20, 2005

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Providence 44, 1986

Aaron Siskind

Providence 44, 1986

Sale Date: October 20, 2005

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Arizpe (Mexico) 22, 1966

Aaron Siskind

Arizpe (Mexico) 22, 1966

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Chicago 15, 1952

Aaron Siskind

Chicago 15, 1952

Sale Date: October 20, 2005

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Jerome, Arizona, 1949

Aaron Siskind

Jerome, Arizona, 1949

Sale Date: October 20, 2005

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Tabernacle city - Cabaret dancer (from..., 1935

Aaron Siskind

Tabernacle city - Cabaret dancer (from..., 1935

Sale Date: October 20, 2005

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Untitled, 1949

Aaron Siskind

Untitled, 1949

Sale Date: October 18, 2005

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Martha's Vineyard, 1954

Aaron Siskind

Martha's Vineyard, 1954

Sale Date: October 7, 2005

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Pleasures and terrors of levitation 82, 1961

Aaron Siskind

Pleasures and terrors of levitation 82, 1961

Sale Date: October 7, 2005

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Pleasures and terrors of levitation 94, 1961

Aaron Siskind

Pleasures and terrors of levitation 94, 1961

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Tabernacle city, 1934

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Tabernacle city, 1934

Sale Date: October 7, 2005

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New York 6, 1951

Aaron Siskind

New York 6, 1951

Sale Date: October 11, 2005

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Chicago 231, 1953

Aaron Siskind

Chicago 231, 1953

Sale Date: October 11, 2005

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Jerome, Arizona, 1949

Aaron Siskind

Jerome, Arizona, 1949

Sale Date: May 26, 2005

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Boy's head, 1932

Aaron Siskind

Boy's head, 1932

Sale Date: May 26, 2005

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Harlem (Woman in a kitchen), 1937

Aaron Siskind

Harlem (Woman in a kitchen), 1937

Sale Date: May 26, 2005

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Harlem (Shoe shining), 1934

Aaron Siskind

Harlem (Shoe shining), 1934

Sale Date: May 26, 2005

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Gloucester 1H, 1944

Aaron Siskind

Gloucester 1H, 1944

Sale Date: May 18, 2005

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Chicago (Auto graveyard) 3, 1948

Aaron Siskind

Chicago (Auto graveyard) 3, 1948

Sale Date: May 18, 2005

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Untitled, 1953

Aaron Siskind

Untitled, 1953

Sale Date: May 18, 2005

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Chicago, 1960

Aaron Siskind

Chicago, 1960

Sale Date: May 17, 2005

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Lima 99, 1979

Aaron Siskind

Lima 99, 1979

Sale Date: April 30, 2005

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Jerome 20, 1949

Aaron Siskind

Jerome 20, 1949

Sale Date: April 28, 2005

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Pleasures and terrors of levitation, 1956

Aaron Siskind

Pleasures and terrors of levitation, 1956

Sale Date: April 28, 2005

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