Board_Advisors_etc 3..5

Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Cali-
fornia)
1984 Aaron Siskind; Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea;
Milan, Italy
1985 Encuentro de Fotograpfos Mexicanos con Aaron Sis-
kind; Universidad Veracruzana; Xalapa, Mexico
1988 Aaron Siskind: 50 Years, 1937-1987; Fogg Art Museum;
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1989 Siskind from the Collection; Museum of Modern Art;
New York, New York
1990 Harlem: Photographs by Aaron Siskind, 1932-1940;
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Insti-
tution; Washington, DC
1994 Aaron Siskind: Towards a Personal Vision 1935-1955;
Boston College Museum of Art; Chestnut Hill, Massa-
chusetts

Selected Group Exhibitions

1939 Harlem Document; The Photo League; New York,
New York
1941 Image of Freedom; Museum of Modern Art; New
York, New York
1946 New Photographers; Museum of Modern Art; New
York, New York
1947 The Artist, Nature and Society; Yale University; New
Haven, Connecticut
1948 This is the Photo League; The Photo League; New
York, New York
1951 51 American Photographers; Museum of Modern Art;
New York, New York
1952 Diogenes with a Camera II; Museum of Modern Art;
New York, New York
1957 Abstract Photography; American Federation of Arts
traveling exhibition
Harry Callahan-Aaron Siskind; the USIS traveling
exhibition
1959 Photography at Mid-Century; George Eastman House;
Rochester, New York
Photographer’s Choice; University of Indiana; Bloo-
mington, Indiana
1960 Photographs by Professors; Limelight Gallery; New
York, New York
The Sense of Abstraction; Museum of Modern Art;
New York, New York
1961 The Art of Photography; George Eastman House;
Rochester, New York
1963 Six Photographers; University of Illinois; Urbana,
Illinois

1964 The Painter and the Photograph; Rose Art Museum;

Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts and tra-

veling

1969 Harlem on My Mind; Metropolitan Museum of Art;

New York, New York

2002 Taken by Design, Photographs from the Institute of

Design, 1937-1971; Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago,

Illinois

Selected Works

Note: The majority of Siskind’s photographs are untitled:

frequently, only the location, number and date (if

recorded) are given.

Untitled, from the projectThe Most Crowded Block, 1940

(printed later)

Untitled (Mother and Daughter sitting at a table), 1935

Harlem Document(series), 1935–1939

Tabernacle City(series), 1935–1940

Martha’s Vineyard (Seaweed) 2, 1943

Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation(series), 1953–1961

Guadalajara 21, 1961

Martha’s Vineyard (The Tree)(series), 1971–1973

Homage to Franz Kline(series), 1973–1975

Westport 67, 1988

Further Reading

Chiarenza, Carl.Aaron Siskind: Pleasures and Terrors. New

York: New York Graphic Society, 1982.

Kao, Deborah Martin, and Charles A. Mayer, eds.Aaron

Siskind: Toward a Personal Vision. Boston: Boston Col-

lege Museum of Art, 1994.

Hess, Thomas B., ed.Places: Aaron Siskind Photographs.

New York: Light Gallery/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

1976.

Fredrickson, Tom, Claire Cass and Stephen Daiter, eds.

This Was the Photo League. Chicago: Stephen Daiter

Gallery, 2001.

Howells, Richard. ‘‘Order and Fantasy: an interview with

Aaron Siskind,’’Word and Image15, no. 3 (1999).

Lyons, Nathan, ed.Aaron Siskind: Photographer. Roche-

ster: George Eastman House, 1965.

Rosenberg, Harold. Aaron Siskind, Photographs. New

York: Horizon Press, 1959.

Traub, Charles, ed.Aaron Siskind: Road Trip. Untitled 49,

San Francisco: The Friends of Photography, 1989.

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