Aaron Siskind

Aaron Siskind (1903-1991) was born in New York City. His first major exhibition was in 1949 at the Charles Egan Gallery. New York, and he was the only photographer invited to participate in the famed Ninth Street Show of abstract expressionist painters, which included Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and Jack Tworkov. His first book, AARON SISKIND PHOTOGRAPHS, with an introduction by respected art critic Harold Rosenberg, was published with the help of Kline and other artists...See more

Aaron Siskind (1903-1991) was born in New York City. His first major exhibition was in 1949 at the Charles Egan Gallery. New York, and he was the only photographer invited to participate in the famed Ninth Street Show of abstract expressionist painters, which included Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and Jack Tworkov. His first book, AARON SISKIND PHOTOGRAPHS, with an introduction by respected art critic Harold Rosenberg, was published with the help of Kline and other artists who provided financial support. Siskind's work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; the Cleveland Art Museum; The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; the Canadian Center for Architecture, Quebec; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Rhode Island School of Design Art Museum, Providence; and the Fogg Art Museum, Boston, among others. Siskind died in Rhode Island. See less