- Artist/Maker:
- Aaron Siskind
- Bio:
- American, 1903-1991
- Title:
- Street Market
- Portfolio/Series:
- Harlem Document, 1936-40
- Date:
- 1937, printed later
- Medium:
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm) Image: 8 1/2 × 12 in. (21.6 × 30.5 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Lillian Gordon Bequest
- Accession Number:
- 2000-59
- Copyright:
- © Aaron Siskind Foundation, Courtesy Bruce Silverstein Gallery
Not On View
Siskind’s overhead view of the street market below the El at 145th Street is similar to that in Harold Corsini’s Playing Football. Siskind, who was somewhat older than his colleagues, was inclined by the late 1930s to give equal merit to both social narrative and aesthetics.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.