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Peru 210, 1977
| Content Provider | Art Institute of Chicago |
|---|---|
| Artist | Aaron Siskind |
| Spatial Coverage | United States |
| Temporal Coverage | 1977 |
| Description | Although he began his career as a documentarian, Aaron Siskind quickly became known for photographs that concerned themselves with exploring internal formal relationships rather than depicting recognizable objects. Active in the artistic milieu of postwar New York, Siskind made photographs in dialogue with the work of the Abstract Expressionist painters, with whom he was socially and professionally close. He sought to find a new language for photographic depiction that could transcend what was in front of the camera. “First, and emphatically,” he wrote in 1950, “I accept the flat plane of the picture surface as the primary frame of reference of the picture.” Siskind's radically abstract photographs of walls covered with graffiti, chalk, or peeling paint and paper would be recognized as a pioneering development in 20th-century photography. [Painting of figures construction project amid smoky destruction, middle is pink crater] |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © Aaron Siskind Foundation |
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| Use Rights URL | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| Subject Keyword | Photographic Paper Black and White Photography Photographic Process Photographic Techniques Photography Artworks |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Photograph |
| Object Type | Photographs |
