Jonathan Williams Jun 6, 2008
"Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind taught me the rudiments of the camera; [Charles] Olson was the largest poet known to man, the energiser who taught me the importance of the writer's press, a self-initiating process that could let you do what you wanted to in the aesthetic realm. 'EACH MAN IS HIS OWN INSTRUMENT!' Olson sang out.". That year he founded the Jargon Society Press as a means of keeping "afloat the Ark of Culture in these dark and tacky times!" More than 100 volumes and broadsides... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Joseph Solman, preeminent painter at crossroads of 20th-century American art Apr 18, 2008
His friends included the photographers Berenice Abbott and Aaron Siskind and the painters Stuart Davis and Willem de Kooning. He edited a radical magazine, Art Front, with the critics Meyer Schapiro and Harold Rosenberg. (Boston Globe)
Photography collection upholds its image Jul 25, 2007
We can see examples of these qualities in Black and White Lillies III (circa 1928) by Imogen Cunningham; Dunes, Oceana (1936) by Edward Weston; Chicago 22 (1949) by Aaron Siskind; and Alley, Chicago (1948) by Harry Callahan. There are only two problems with this exhibit, as I see it. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
Call for Artists:2007 International Juried Competition May 5, 2007
Jurors: Rebecca Morse Assistant Curator, MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art Since 2001 she has flown solo on shows for filmmaker/photographer/provocateur Larry Clark, Aaron Siskind and Franz Klein (2001-2002), and Lee Friedlander (2002). Her biggest endeavor was the Lucian Freud exhibit (2003). (AbsoluteArts.com)
Have camera, will travel Mar 25, 2007
Also in the show is work from Evans (Cuba), Irving Penn and Aaron Siskind (Peru), Joel Meyerowitz and Harry Callahan (France), Joel Sternfeld (Italy), and Linda Connor (India). All the pictures are from the Art Institute's permanent collection. (Boston Globe)
Galleries: New York City through the lens of Saul Leiter Jan 25, 2007
Nor is he a formalist, like Aaron Siskind. He didn't shoot New Yorkers so much as the city itself, and he did it intimately, so that a simple image -- a man's foot resting on a subway seat; a red umbrella in the snow -- feels fresh, yet utterly familiar and intrinsically New York. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Daydreams and Decay Dec 1, 2006
After studying with Aaron Siskind, he focused on both abstract and landscape photography and street photography before concentrating on constructed scenes. He has taught at Temple University's Tyler School of Art, where he is a professor of photography, since 1973, and his work is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
A PLACE IN HISTORY Nov 6, 2006
Rogovin's miners, steelworkers and West Side triptychs will now join the works of photographers like Adams, Weston, Richard Avedon, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Louise Dahl-Wolfe and W. Eugene Smith in Tucson. With about 80,000 original photographs and 3. (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
