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Aaron Siskind

Westport 7, 1998

Description

Maker

Aaron Siskind, 1903-1991, American, (RISD Faculty 1971-1976, Photography)

Title

Westport 7

Year

1998

Medium

Photogravure

Dimensions

Image: 34.8 x 34.3 cm (13 11/16 x 13 1/2 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed in pencil, LL:31 / 32; center:Westport 87 1988; LR:Aaron Siskind

Type

Credit

Gift of Paul Taylor in memory of Aaron Siskind

Object Number

1991.044.6

Exhibition History

Aaron Siskind

October 10, 2003 - January 11, 2004

“In the early [seaweed] pictures I just used the frame because I was making a picture...and it had to have a frame, limitations. But here the frame works more actively. You can feel that it is containing the tar configurations—they move against the frame, they hang from the frame, they move into the frame or they come into the picture from the frame.” Siskind, from transcript of Judith Wechsler’s film, Aaron Siskind: Making Pictures, 1991.

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