About This Image

Signed, titled, and dated in ink, lower margin recto. There are copies of this image in the New York MoMA, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art (DC), and the International Center for Photography.

See: Aaron Siskind, Photographs (New York: Horizon Press 1959); Mulligan and Wouters, Photography from 1839 to Today (Taschen 2000).

Though he began his career as a documentary photographer, Aaron Siskind turned away from representation and towards abstraction in the 1940s, using his camera to capture the graphic patterns, shapes, and forms he observed around him. By carefully framing his subjects, he would transform strands of seaweed on the sand into calligraphic brushstrokes, peeling paint into low relief sculptures, or graffiti on a wall into a Franz Kline canvas. Siskind influenced and was influenced by the Abstract Expressionists, his photographs frequently exhibited alongside their paintings.

His work is in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA); Tate Modern; Whitney Museum of American Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Studio Museum in Harlem; Museo Reina Sofia; Art Institute of Chicago; MCA Chicago; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and the Rjiks Museum.

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