"AARON SISKIND: HARLEM PHOTOGRAPHY"
1999-08-11 until 1999-10-10
Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University
Atlanta, GE, USA United States of America

An exhibition of the documentary photography of Aaron Siskind (American, 1903-1991), will be on display at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University in its First Floor Galleries. Aaron Siskind: Harlem Photography will run through Oct. 10. Early in his career, Aaron Siskind was attracted to documentary photography. He joined the New York Photo League, an offshoot of the radical Film and Photo League, that was committed to documenting the urban social scene. The sympathetic eye Siskind brought to his subjects is clearly illustrated in this selection of photographs from the Harlem Document, an in-depth photographic project sponsored by the Film and Photo League. This was perhaps the first time a white photographer documented this black community. His work of the 1940s often shows an elimination of depth and an abstraction of the markings of time and human presence that evince his association with the Abstract Expressionists. SiskindŐs interest in the play of light and shade and concentration on detail, evident in photographs such as Back Yard, Harlem and Airshaft, Harlem, prefigure his later style.

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