Jerome, Arizona
Artist
Aaron Siskind
(American, 1903 - 1991)
Date1949
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 19 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches (49.53 x 36.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.393
InscribedSignature
Signed in artist's hand
"To Irene and Arthur, Love and --- Aaron"
Back of Print
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Terms
Recent Acquisitions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection. Rockhurst College, Kansas City, MO, October 6-27, 1985, no cat.
Art by Chance: Fortuitous Impressions. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 22-September 3, 1989, no. cat.
Rotation 1. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 17 – October 25, 2007, no cat.
Siskind began in photography in the mid-1930s, working in the social documentary mode. In the early 1940s, his interest shifted dramatically, from factual to metaphorical concerns. From this new perspective, the most trivial subjects had the potential to serve as symbols of the human condition-to suggest the uncertainty, longing and dread that characterize every life. Siskind himself stated that his photographs represent a symbolic quest to resolve "the sometimes fierce, sometimes gentle, but always conflicting forces" of life. In this work, the isolated detail testifies to the passage of time.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1984;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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