Aaron Siskind
Chicago 22

Chicago 22

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Chicago 22
Chicago 22
ArtistAmerican, 1903–1991
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Chicago 22
Date1949
PlaceChicago, Illinois, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 × 18 11/16 in. (19.1 × 47.4 cm)
Sheet: 16 × 19 15/16 in. (40.6 × 50.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.2946
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionIn the mid-1940s, Siskind moved from the socially conscious documentary photography that had preoccupied him throughout the 1930s to increasingly symbolic and abstract photographs of discarded and found objects. “For the first time in my life subject matter had ceased to be of primary importance,” he wrote in 1945. “Instead, I found myself involved in the relationships of these objects, so much so that these pictures turned out to be deeply moving and personal experiences.” As his photographic subjects became increasingly abstract—often flat surfaces of rusted signs, painted walls, and fragmentary posters— they shared both the look and non-narrative content of paintings by Siskind’s Abstract Expressionist friends.
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"The Marzio Years: Transforming the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1982–2010," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 25, 2020–January 10, 2021.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
lower left corner below image " Chicago 22 1949 "
verso lower right in pencil " 622/Pc3 "
lower right corner below image " Aaron Siskind "

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