DeCordova Collects Photographs: Recent Acquisitions
Aaron Siskind
Aaron Siskind was the most important and influential practitioner of abstract photography in America. During the 1940s he pioneered a style based on the selection of forms and details in nature and architecture, arranged in flat planes with clear, geometric compositions. According to the artist: “When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order—unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder.” Siskind was a strong adherent of Modernism, and sought to make each photograph “an object that confronts you, not an object that you’re just looking at—it’s parallel to you.” Although Siskind is best known for black-and-white photography, Bahia is an example from a small set of work printed in color late in his career.
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