Click Here To View More Plates Aaron Siskind 100 Photographs by Aaron Siskind A Blind Spot Book, published by powerHouse Books Clothbound with tip-on, 10 x 13.25 inches, 176 pages, 100 tritone photographs ISBN 1-57687-194-0   $125.00 Add to Cart One of the most important and influential artists working with photography during the twentieth century, Aaron Siskind is being celebrated on the occasion of his 100th birthday with the publication of this elegant and comprehensive monograph, bringing together both well-known and never-before-published images. Siskind's prolific career spanned six decades and left its mark on both photography and painting. In 1932, at age twenty-nine, Siskind began his career as a photographer and spent the next nine years under the auspices of the New York Photo League, working on social documentary photography. Around 1940, Siskind made a shift toward abstraction and entered an art world populated by painters and sculptors. During the course of the decade, Siskind began to explore a vision that depended on the shallow plane, and utilized delicate, minimal designs. "For the first time in my life subject matter, as such, had ceased to be of primary importance," Siskind explained. "Instead I found myself involved in the relationships of these objects, so much so that the pictures turned out to be deeply moving and personal experiences." The photograph had become the object. Siskind's style of gesture and nuance, a new form of visual calligraphy, dominated his work for the next forty years, and ran parallel to the developments of his colleagues, the abstract expressionists. Siskind was not only a critical figure in modern photography, but also influenced the work of painters of that period, including Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline, and Robert Rauschenberg. Aaron Siskind 100, book and exhibition, honors the legacy of this legendary artist through six decades of an incredible photographic journey. Blind Spot Books produces elegantly designed, sumptuously produced works of artistic and literary significance. Blind Spot Books uses the same uncompromising productions standards and the finest printing available for the series. Each book is treated as a creative medium that celebrates the integrity of the best in art and literature. Aaron Siskind (1903-1991) was born in New York City. His first major exhibition was in 1949 at the Charles Egan Gallery, New York, and he was the only photographer invited to participate in the famed Ninth Street Show of abstract expressionist painters, which included Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and Jack Tworkov. His first book, Aaron Siskind Photographs, with an introduction by respected art critic Harold Rosenberg, was published with the help of Kline and other artists who provided financial support. Siskind's work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; the Cleveland Art Museum; The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; the Canadian Center for Architecture, Quebec; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Rhode Island School of Design Art Museum, Providence; and the Fogg Art Museum, Boston, among others. Siskind died in Rhode Island. AARON SISKIND Exhibition Schedule The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California: September 30, 2001-January 6, 2002 Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: January 29-March 16, 2003 Center For Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona: March 8-July 6, 2003 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois: July 25-September 8, 2003 Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin: September 6, 2003-January 4, 2004 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey: September 9-November 9, 2003 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio: September 13-November 19, 2003 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York: October 4, 2003-February 1, 2004 The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York: October 15, 2003-January 4, 2004 Hanmi Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea: November 1-December 13, 2003 The RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island: November 14, 2003-January 25, 2004 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas: July 3-September 26, 2004