The Pleasures & Terrors of Levitation
Artist
Aaron Siskind
(American, 1903 - 1991)
Date1953; printed later
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 7/8 inches (35.24 × 27.62 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.2132
SignedSigned on sheet verso, top, in pencil: "Aaron Siskind"
InscribedOn sheet verso, top, in pencil: "Pleasures + Terrors of Levitation 1953"
MarkingsOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "19-5-81";
On sheet verso, lower right corner, in pencil: "P5.019.005.81"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of a man wearing swimtrunks in a free fall against blank background with arms outstretched.Exhibition HistoryTwentieth-Century Photographers: Selections from the HPC. Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH, March 28 - April 27, 1996, no cat.
Aaron Siskind: Master of Black & White. J.B. Speed Art Museum, December 4, 1987-February 7, 1988, no cat.
Rotation 21. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 12 – July 31, 2016, no cat.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1981;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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