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ID: 500024299
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500024299
 
Record Type: Person
Siskind, Aaron (American photographer and teacher, 1903-1991)

Note: Born 4 December 1903; died 8 February 1991. Siskind took his first photographs while on vacation in Bermuda in 1930. In 1932 Siskind worked as a freelance photographer. In 1935 Siskind photographed the Harlem district of New York City, New York for the "Harlem Document". From 1951 to 1959 Siskind served as a professor of photography at Illinois Institute of Technology. In 1959 he became director of the photography department, a position he held until 1970. Siskind was a founding member of the Society for Photographic Education in 1963. In 1981 Siskind photographed in Peru.

Names:
Siskind, Aaron (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
Siskind, Aaron (Dutch-P,NA)
Aaron Siskind (V,display)
זיסקינד, אהרון (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)

Roles:
artist (preferred)
photographer
teacher

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)
Died:  Providence (Providence county, Rhode Island, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   1932 - 1950  New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)
active:   1951 - 1970  Chicago (Cook county, Illinois, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
teacher of ....  Blondeau, Barbara  
..................  (American photographer, 1938-1974) [500034582]
teacher of ....  Connor, Linda  from 1967 to 1969
..................  (American photographer, born 1944) [500037132]
teacher of ....  Crane, Barbara  
..................  (American photographer, born 1928) [500003588]
teacher of ....  Ishimoto, Yasuhiro  
..................  (Japanese and American photographer, born 1921) [500036883]
teacher of ....  Jachna, Joseph David  
..................  (American photographer, born 1935) [500110847]
teacher of ....  Josephson, Kenneth  
..................  (American photographer, born 1932) [500001279]
teacher of ....  Larson, William  
..................  (American photographer, 1942-2019) [500003955]
teacher of ....  Metzker, Ray K.  
..................  (American photographer, 1931-2014) [500076932]
teacher of ....  Minkkinen, Arno Rafael  
..................  (Finnish photographer, born 1945, active in the United States) [500335861]
teacher of ....  Newman, Marvin E.  
..................  (American photographer, 1927-2023) [500120891]
teacher of ....  Sinsabaugh, Art  
..................  (American photographer and educator, 1924-1983) [500016417]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Siskind, Aaron (I)

Biographies:
(American photographer and teacher, 1903-1991) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American photographer, b.1903) ..... [BHA]
(American photographer; born New York (City) (New York, United States), 1903; died Providence (Rhode Island, United States), 1991) ..... [CCA]
(American, 1903 -) ..... [JPGM]
(American photographer, 1903-1991) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, 1903-1991) ..... [MoMA]
(American photographer, 1903-1991) ..... [IMJ]
(American photographer, 1903-1991) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
זיסקינד, אהרון ........ [IMJ]
............................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Aaron Siskind ........ [CCA, GRISC, GRL, MoMA, VP]
............................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
............................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Siskind, Aaron ........ [BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, JPGM Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
..............................  Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon / Artists of the World (2009-) accessed 25 October 2012
..............................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..............................  CCA Authority File (1980-)
..............................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..............................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..............................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
..............................  J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
..............................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 81095966; accessed 25 October 2012
..............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 330182

Subject: ........ [BHA, CCA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, Grove Art, IMJ, JPGM, MoMA, RKD, VP]
....................  Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon / Artists of the World (2009-) accessed 25 October 2012
....................  Art Index (1929-) July 1990
....................  Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
....................  Borcoman, Magicians of Light (1993). 218
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  CCA Authority File (1980-)
....................  Chiarenza, Pleasures and Terrors (1982)
....................  Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n81095966
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Art Online (2008-) accessed 25 October 2012
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 81095966; accessed 25 October 2012
....................  Macmillan, Encyclopedia Photographers (1983)
....................  Naylor, Contemporary Photographers (1988)
....................  NY Times obit. 9 Feb 1991
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 330182
....................  Siskind, Harlem Document: Photographs (1981)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q302714
 
Note:
English .......... [CCA]
.......... Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
.......... Naylor, Contemporary Photographers (1988)
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