Boys in Empty Tenement

© Aaron Siskind/Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Boys in Empty Tenement

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Boys in Empty Tenement,

1935

Aaron Siskind, 1903–1991; born New York, NY; died Providence, RI; active New York, Chicago, and Providence
x1981-117.3

Information

Title
Boys in Empty Tenement
Dates

1935

Maker
Aaron Siskind
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 23.5 x 18 cm. (9 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.) sheet: 35.7 x 27.7 cm. (14 1/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift, in memory of Lincoln K. Barnett, Class of 1929
Object Number
x1981-117.3
Place Made

North America, United States, New York, Manhattan, New York, Harlem

Inscription
Dated and titled in graphite, verso bottom: Harlem 1935, Boys in Empty Tenement Signed in ink, below lower right corner of image: Aaron Siskind
Culture
American
Type
black-and-white photographs, photographs, gelatin silver prints
Techniques
gelatin silver process
Subject
cities, row houses, tenement houses, vandalism, poverty, urban blight, derelict buildings, figures (representations), gelatin silver prints, child, children (people by age group), boys, urban environments, apartments, doorways, affordable housing, deterioration, windows, stairs

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