Barry Hannah
Short story writer, novelist, professor
Aaron Siskind
American photographer (1903-1991)
Aaron Siskindwas an American photographer whose work focuses on the details of things, presented as flat surfaces to create a new image independent of the original subject. He was closely involved with, if not a part of, the abstract expressionist movement, and was close friends with painters Franz Kline (whose own breakthrough show at the Charles Egan Gallery occurred in the same period as Siskind’s one-man shows at the same gallery), Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning.
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Aaron Siskindwas an American photographer whose work focuses on the details of things, presented as flat surfaces to create a new image independent of the original subject. He was closely involved with, if not a part of, the abstract expressionist movement, and was close friends with painters Franz Kline (whose own breakthrough show at the Charles Egan Gallery occurred in the same period as Siskind’s one-man shows at the same gallery), Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning.
2 Quotes by Aaron Siskind
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We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect… but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
Aaron SiskindAmerican photographer (1903-1991)
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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
Aaron SiskindAmerican photographer (1903-1991)