Timeline

1903

Born in NYC

1926 - 1947

Taught high school English, NY Public Schools, New York, NY

1926

Bachelor of Social Sciences, College of the City of New York, NY

1930

Received his first camera as a gift

1932

Documentarian, the New York Photo League, New York, NY

1936 - 1940

Oversaw New York Photo League’s Feature Group in creation of documentary photo-essays; Harlem Document, Dead End: The Bowery, Portrait of a Tenement, and St. Joseph’s House: The Catholic Worker Movement

1940

His imagery shifted to abstract

Befriended Abstract Expressionist painters: Franz Kline, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko

1947 - 1954

Exhibits at Charles Egan Gallery, New York, NY

1951 - 1971

Teaching: Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Chicago, IL

1961

Succeeded Harry Callahan as Head of Photography Department, Institute of Design, Chicago, IL

1963

Co-Founded “the Society for Photographic Education”

1966

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (Rome, Italy)

1971 - 1976

Professor of Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1991

Died in Providence, RI

2003 - 2004

The Aaron Siskind Centennial Celebration, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago (travelled).