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Aaron Siskind
Artist's Name: Aaron Siskind
Preferred medium: photography
birth year: 1903
Nationality: US
City: New York

Aaron Siskind - Profile

Aaron Siskind (American, 1903-1992), born in New York, studied literature and long believed he would become a writer. But in 1930 his photographic career began when he received a camera as a gift. In 1932 he joined the Film and Photo League and began producing social documentary images, creating such series as Harlem Document. In the early 40s Siskind started to experiment with abstraction-he photographed graffiti, peeling plaster, sections of signs, road surfaces, and found objects. Many of his powerful mid-century images reflect the influence of abstract-expressionist painters of that period, many of whom were his friends including Kline, Motherwell, and de Kooning. And like the impact these painters had on their medium, Siskind transformed photography as means of artistic expression. Also a life-long and influencial teacher, Siskind moved to Chicago upon invitation from his friend and colleague Harry Callahan and taught photography at the Institute of Design for twenty years (1951-71). (Stephen Daiter Gallery)

important exhibitions from Aaron Siskind

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Creative Continuum: The History of the Center for Creative Photography Center for Creative Photography Tucson US 20.08.2011
Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection Metropolitan Museum New York US 15.09.2009
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951 The Jewish Museum of New York New York US 04.11.2011
AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS Johannes Faber Wien AT 02.07.2010
ART FOR THE PEOPLE: 20th Century Social Realism Boca Raton Museum of Art Boca Raton US 26.04.2011
Magie des Objekts - Photographie aus drei Jahrhunderten Leopold Museum Wien AT 10.06.2011
Modern Life Edward Hopper and His Time Kunsthal Rotterdam Rotterdam NL 26.09.2009
Bert de Beul Ivan Bazak Kewenig Galerie Köln DE 27.06.2009

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Aaron Siskind

Galleries representing
Aaron Siskind:

ArteF, Zürich
Bruce Silverstein Gallery
Françoise Paviot Gallery
Hasted Kraeutler Gallery
Howard Greenberg
Robert Mann Gallery, New York
SAGE Paris
Stephen Daiter Gallery

Collections representing
Aaron Siskind

Chrysler Museum of Art
Cincinnati Art Museum
Currier Museum of Art
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art
David Winton Bell Gallery
DeCordova Museum
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Harvard Art Museum
Kemper Art Museum
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA
MoCP- The Museum of Contemporary Photography
Museo Fotografia Contemporanea
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
Neuberger Museum
Pomona College Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Spencer Museum of Art - University of Kansas
The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art
University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMCA