Arizpe, Mexico 21

© Aaron Siskind/Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Arizpe, Mexico 21

Currently not on view

Arizpe, Mexico 21,

1966

Aaron Siskind, 1903–1991; born New York, NY; died Providence, RI; active New York, Chicago, and Providence
x1975-25
Active from the 1940s until his death in 1991, Aaron Siskind was a New York-based photographer engaged with many of the ideas and developments asso ciated with Abstract Expressionism. A former teacher at the progressive, arts oriented Black Mountain College in North Carolina, Siskind used black-and-white photography to transform banal objects and scenes, such as the walls and surfaces featured here, into striking compositions. Using close-ups and cropping, Siskind’s photographs defamiliarize their subject matter, making the three-dimensional, phenomenal world flat and abstract.

Information

Title
Arizpe, Mexico 21
Dates

1966

Maker
Aaron Siskind
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
29.3 × 44.5 cm (11 9/16 × 17 1/2 in.) mount: 50.3 x 60.2 cm. (19 13/16 x 23 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, with an anonymous matching gift
Object Number
x1975-25
Place Depicted

North America, Mexico, Arizpe

Inscription
Titled, dated, and signed ink, verso: [arrow up] Arizpe, Mexico 21 1966 / Aaron Siskind In graphite, verso: 24 5//8 x 20
Culture
American
Type
black-and-white photographs, photographs, gelatin silver prints
Techniques
mounting, gelatin silver process
Subject
graffiti, walls, rectangles, text

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