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Aaron Siskind

Terracotta (I11) 6, printed: 1961

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Untitled (Martha's Vineyard), printed: 1947

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Chicago 24, 1965, 1965

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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).

2003: Rhem, James Louis. Aaron Siskind. New York: Phaidon Press, Inc.
2002: Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971. Edited by David Travis and Elizabeth Siegel. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago/The University of Chicago Press
1994: Siskind, Aaron. Aaron Siskind: Toward a Personal Vision 1935 -1955. Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts: Boston College Museum of Art
1989: Siskind, Aaron. Road Trip: Photographs 1980-1988. San Francisco: The Friends of Photography
1982: Chiarenza, Carl. Aaron Siskind, Pleasures and Terrors. Boston: Little, Brown and Company
1979: Siskind, Aaron. Aaron Siskind: Photographs 1932-1978). London: A. Zwemmer Limited

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