Aaron Siskind 100
Many museums are exhibiting Aaron Siskind's work to mark the centenary of his birth.
* Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin -- 09.06.03 - 01.04.04
* Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York -- 10.04.03 - 02.01.04
* The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York -- 10.15.0303 - 01.04.04
* Hanmi Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea -- 11.01.03 - 12.13.03
* The RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island -- 11.14.03 - 01.25.04
Born in 1903 in New York, Siskind began his artistic career as a documentary photographer. In 1944 Siskind made a radical change in direction and his work became increasingly abstract. His photographs are unmanipulated, sharply focused images of the world.
"Both the object and the idea are in the varying degrees of harmony and dominance... Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them." Aaron Siskind, 1954