Photography
Aaron Siskind, "Volcano I," 1980
- Item Number
- 18
- Estimated Value
- 2600 USD
- Opening Bid
- 950 USD
Item Description
Aaron Siskind (American, 1903-1991)
Volcano I, 1980
Gelatin silver print
Image: 14 3/16 x 14 3/16 inches
Framed: 24 x 20 inches
Signed, titled and dated below image in ink
About The Artist
Photographer and educator Aaron Siskind holds a preeminent place in the history of American art.
Beginning his photographic career in the 1930s as a social documentarian with the New York Photo League, he ultimately radicalized the medium by emphasizing the photograph as an abstract form of expression and an aesthetic end in itself.
Siskind's mature work, as seen here, continued to focus on accidental calligraphic elements, which he found embodied in peeling patches of tar on asphalt roads, in the grain of wood boards, and organic, occasionally anthropomorphic shapes discovered in volcanic lava and the trunks of trees.
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