"AARON SISKIND: ORDER WITH THE TENSIONS CONTINUING". Catalogue. Edition Stephen Daiter Gallery, New York. 2003. Grand in-8, 2 agrafes, couverture souple cartonnées photo à rabat. 32 pages. Texte en anglais, illustré de 21 reproductions photographiques noir & blanc, hors texte, par Aaron Siskind. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme à la Stephen Daiter Gallery, New York, du 02 Mai au 28 Juin 2003 et Galerie Françoise Pavot, Paris, du 15 Novembre 2003 au 24 Janvier 2004.

 

"Aaron Siskind's early interest in photography, as a member of the Film and Photo League (1932-36), later known as the Photo League (1937-41), was in social and documentary imagery. He organized the League's Feature Group. ln the early 1940s he started to experiment with abstraction and by the latter part of the decade he was a mature abstract expressionist artist. During this period, he helped to found The Club, an informal cooperative salon of New York based artists working primarily in abstraction… Between 1947 and 1954, Siskind had five one man exhibitions at the Egan Gallery. The work produced during his involvement With the New York abstract expressionists and his incredibly productive first decade in Chicago (1951 to 1961) are considered by most collectors, curators, critics and writers to be Siskind's most important creative period. This exhibition consists of vintage abstract photographs printed larger than usual. They range from about 17 by 14 up to 50 by 40 inches, Siskind long envisioned this scale but could rarely afford to realize it. On the walls these prints are at once sensual, intellectual and spiritual, and together provide a powerful expression of his artistic vision."

 

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