origem: Fundação Aaron Siskind Harlem, Nova Iorque.Biografia e cronologia 1903Born December 4th, New York City.1915-26Educated in New York City at De Witt Clinton High School, and City College, B.S.S. in Literature.1929Marries Sidonie Glaller; gets his first camera as a honeymoon gift.1926-47English instructor in New York City public school system.1932-35Active in the New York Workers' Film and Photo League. Buys a Voigtlander Avus.1936-41Active in the reorganized New York Photo League. Established the Feature Group, a documentary production unit, as part of the Photo League School. Produced group and independent photo-series including: The Catholic Worker Movement; Dead End: The Bowery; The End of City Repertory Theatre; The Harlem Document; Lost Generation: The Plight of Youth Today; The Most Crowded Block in the World; Park Avenue: North and South; Sixteenth Street: A Cross-section of New York; and Tabernacle City.1940Published "The Feature Group" in Photo Notes.1943-44Created increasingly symbolic and abstract photographs based on discarded and found objects on Martha's Vineyard and in Gloucester, Massachusetts.1945Published "The Drama of Objects" in Minicam Photography. Established close and enduring ties to the artists of the New York School.1947-49Taught photography at Trenton Junior College, Trenton, New Jersey.1947-51Exhibited regularly at Charles Egan Gallery. Elaine de Kooning wrote "The Photographs of Aaron Siskind" as the introduction to a 1951 exhibition of Siskind's photographs at the gallery.1950Wrote "Credo" as an artist's statement for a symposium titled "What is Modern Photography?", organized by Edward Steichen at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.1951Taught with Harry Callahan during the summer at Black Mountain College.1951-71At the invitation of Harry Callahan, Siskind joined the faculty of the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He was Professor of Photography until 1959, when he became Director of the Photographic Department. He led and participated in advanced student projects including: Apartment interiors of the Mies van der Rohe Lake Shore Drive Skyscrapers, A Chicago Settlement House, The Chicago Housing Authority, The Complete Architecture of Adler and Sullivan (also called the Louis Sullivan project), Details of the Human Body, The Park System of Chicago, and The Series Form.Travels in Greece and Rome.1956With Harry Callahan, published "Learning Photography at the Institute of Design", in Aperture.1959Publication of his first book.1960-70Co-editor of Choice Magazine.1963-64Founder-member of the Society for Photographic Education.Board member, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Chicago.1966-83Receives numerous awards including: Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Gold Star of Merit award from Philadelphia College of Art, an NEA grant, and the Governer's Prize for the Arts, Rhode Island.1969Founding member of the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester.1971-76Taught photography with Harry Callahan at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.1971-1991An established master, Siskind continues to make photographs and was published and exhibited widely.1984Incorporated an eponymous foundation that is set up to inherit his vintage photographs, the income from which he mandates be used in support of contemporary photography.1991Died in Providence RI, February 8, 1991 at 87 years old. Jovem rapaz, 1959.
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origem: Fundação Aaron Siskind Harlem, Nova Iorque.Biografia e cronologia 1903Born December 4th, New York City.1915-26Educated in New York City at De Witt Clinton High School, and City College, B.S.S. in Literature.1929Marries Sidonie Glaller; gets his first camera as a honeymoon gift.1926-47English instructor in New York City public school system.1932-35Active in the New York Workers' Film and Photo League. Buys a Voigtlander Avus.1936-41Active in the reorganized New York Photo League. Established the Feature Group, a documentary production unit, as part of the Photo League School. Produced group and independent photo-series including: The Catholic Worker Movement; Dead End: The Bowery; The End of City Repertory Theatre; The Harlem Document; Lost Generation: The Plight of Youth Today; The Most Crowded Block in the World; Park Avenue: North and South; Sixteenth Street: A Cross-section of New York; and Tabernacle City.1940Published "The Feature Group" in Photo Notes.1943-44Created increasingly symbolic and abstract photographs based on discarded and found objects on Martha's Vineyard and in Gloucester, Massachusetts.1945Published "The Drama of Objects" in Minicam Photography. Established close and enduring ties to the artists of the New York School.1947-49Taught photography at Trenton Junior College, Trenton, New Jersey.1947-51Exhibited regularly at Charles Egan Gallery. Elaine de Kooning wrote "The Photographs of Aaron Siskind" as the introduction to a 1951 exhibition of Siskind's photographs at the gallery.1950Wrote "Credo" as an artist's statement for a symposium titled "What is Modern Photography?", organized by Edward Steichen at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.1951Taught with Harry Callahan during the summer at Black Mountain College.1951-71At the invitation of Harry Callahan, Siskind joined the faculty of the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He was Professor of Photography until 1959, when he became Director of the Photographic Department. He led and participated in advanced student projects including: Apartment interiors of the Mies van der Rohe Lake Shore Drive Skyscrapers, A Chicago Settlement House, The Chicago Housing Authority, The Complete Architecture of Adler and Sullivan (also called the Louis Sullivan project), Details of the Human Body, The Park System of Chicago, and The Series Form.Travels in Greece and Rome.1956With Harry Callahan, published "Learning Photography at the Institute of Design", in Aperture.1959Publication of his first book.1960-70Co-editor of Choice Magazine.1963-64Founder-member of the Society for Photographic Education.Board member, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Chicago.1966-83Receives numerous awards including: Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Gold Star of Merit award from Philadelphia College of Art, an NEA grant, and the Governer's Prize for the Arts, Rhode Island.1969Founding member of the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester.1971-76Taught photography with Harry Callahan at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.1971-1991An established master, Siskind continues to make photographs and was published and exhibited widely.1984Incorporated an eponymous foundation that is set up to inherit his vintage photographs, the income from which he mandates be used in support of contemporary photography.1991Died in Providence RI, February 8, 1991 at 87 years old. Jovem rapaz, 1959.