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Siskind, Aaron
(1903-1991)Harlem

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 6.6.2026

Harlem. 1935. Gelatin silver print, printed later, mounted to board. 27,7 x 35,5 cm. Signed in black ink below the image on the mount; annotated “Harlem 1935, Street Scene 3” in pencil on the verso.

Made during his early involvement with the Photo League, this work reflects Aaron Siskind’s engagement with socially grounded photography in 1930s Harlem, before his later turn toward abstraction. Rather than isolating a single subject, the image articulates a broader visual field in which everyday urban life is structured through layered planes, signage, and repeated forms, anticipating the formal concerns that would come to define his postwar practice.