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Aaron Siskind Biography
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1926 |
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Bachelor of Social Sciences, College of the City of New York, NY
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1930 |
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Received his first camera as a gift
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1932 |
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Documentarian, the New York Photo League, New York, NY
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1936 - 1940 |
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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
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1940 |
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His imagery shifted to abstract
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1940 |
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Befriended Abstract Expressionist painters: Franz Kline, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko
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1926 - 1947 |
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Taught high school English, NY Public Schools, New York, NY
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1947 - 1954 |
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Exhibits at Charles Egan Gallery, New York, NY
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1961 |
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Succeeded Harry Callahan as Head of Photography Department, Institute of Design, Chicago, IL
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1963 |
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Co-Founded “the Society for Photographic Education”
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1966 |
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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (Rome, Italy)
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1951 - 1971 |
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Teaching: Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Chicago, IL
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1971 - 1976 |
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Professor of Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
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1991 |
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Died in Providence, RI
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2003 - 2004 |
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The Aaron Siskind Centennial Celebration, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago (travelled).
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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1954
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Charles Egan Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1951
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Charles Egan Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1948
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Charles Egan Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1947
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First solo exhibition at the Charles Egan Gallery, New York, NY
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| Literature |
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2003
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Rhem, James Louis. Aaron Siskind. New York: Phaidon Press, Inc.
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2002
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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
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1994
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Siskind, Aaron. Aaron Siskind: Toward a Personal Vision 1935 -1955. Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts: Boston College Museum of Art
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1989
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Siskind, Aaron. Road Trip: Photographs 1980-1988. San Francisco: The Friends of Photography
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1982
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Chiarenza, Carl. Aaron Siskind, Pleasures and Terrors. Boston: Little, Brown and Company
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1979
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Siskind, Aaron. Aaron Siskind: Photographs 1932-1978). London: A. Zwemmer Limited
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| Links to further information |
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