Artist's arttributes:
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Photography |
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Social Realism, Abstract Expressionism |
Most exhibitions in:
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| USA | 150 |
| Canada | 8 |
| Germany | 7 |
| France | 4 |
| Switzerland | 4 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, USA |
11 |
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Robert Mann Gallery, USA |
7 |
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Anita Shapolsky Gallery, USA |
6 |
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DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, USA |
5 |
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The Art Institute of Chicago, USA |
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Biography: 
4.12.1903 Born in New York City, NY (US)
8.2.1991 Died in Providence, RI (US)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 188  from 12.7.
until 16.6.
Solo shows 45
2009
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| Concrete Abstractions - UCR / California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA |
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| Aaron Siskind Foundation - Recurrence - Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Aaron Siskind: The Thing Itself - Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL |
2008
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| The Summer Show 2008 - Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Aaron Siskind - The Egan Gallery Years 1947-1954 - Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Aaron Siskind: 1940s - 1960s - Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, CO |
2006
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| Aaron Siskind - Galerie Berinson, Berlin |
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| Aaron Siskind A Harlem Document (1932-1940) - FMoPA - Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL |
2005
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| Aaron Siskind: "Homage to Franz Kline" - Sarah Lee Artworks & Projects, Santa Monica, CA |
2004
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| Aaron Siskind: Centennial Celebration - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
2003
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| Aaron Siskind’s Photographs of the 1940s - The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI |
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| Aaron Siskind - From Chicago to Providence, 1951-91 - The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI |
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| Aaron Siskind - 100 - Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Aaron Siskind: Harlem Document - The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY |
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| In Conversation: A Centennial Exhibition of Photographs by Aaron Siskind - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Peru 1983 - Aaron Siskind Photographs - The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH |
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| Aaron Siskind at 100 - Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ |
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| Concrete Abstraction - Aaron Siskind Photographs - MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI |
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| Aaron Siskind - MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL |
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| Aaron Siskind - Order with the Tensions Continuing - Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| The Drama of Pictures: Aaron Siskind’s Photography. - Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
2001
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| Aaron Siskind: Transformation - Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York City, NY |
2000
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| Aaron Siskind - Between A Rock & A High Place - Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY |
1999
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| Abstractions: Photographs by Aaron Siskind - Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA |
1998
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| Aaron Siskind, The Fragmentation of Language - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1997
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| Aaron Siskind - The Fragmentation of Language - Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY |
1995
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| Aaron Siskind - Tar Pictures - Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY |
1994
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| Aaron Siskind - Le sens du signe - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
1993
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| Aaron Siskind: The Emanuel and Edithann Gerard Gift - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1992
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| Aaron Siskind - Vintage Works 1930-1960 - Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY |
1990
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| Harlem: Photographs by Aaron Siskind, 1932 - 1940 - Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC |
1989
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| Siskind in the Collection - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1986
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| Aaron Siskind: Fifty Years - Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX |
1985
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| Aaron Siskind: Fifty Years - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1981
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| Aaron Siskind - Statens museum for kunst, Copenhagen |
1980
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| Aaron Siskind - Spectrum Sotos, Zaragoza |
1979
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| Aaron Siskind - Optica - centre for contemporary art, Montreal, QC |
1975
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| Photographs by Aaron Siskind - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1971
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| Aaron Siskind - Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1969
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| Aaron Siskind, Photographer - National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON |
1967
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| Aaron Siskind: Photographer - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
1966
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| Aaron Siskind: Photographer - Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX |
1965
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| Siskind Recently - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1964
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| Photographs by Aaron Siskind - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1955
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| Photographs by Aaron Siskind - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
Group shows 141
2013
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| Light Sensitive - Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC |
2012
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| 60 from the 60s - George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY |
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| Gaze - The Changing Face of Portrait Photography - Istanbul Modern, Istanbul |
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| Howard Greenberg, Collection - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
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| Emmet Gowin and His Contemporaries - The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH |
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| A Discerning Eye: Julian T. Baker Jr. Photography Collection - North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC |
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| second nature: abstract photography then and now - DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA |
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| Photodocument: 20th-century American Photography And Found Text - Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA |
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| Black And - - Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| A New Vision: Modernist Photography - Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH |
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| Looking Forward - Looking Back - G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Abstract Expressionisms: Paintings and Drawings from the Collection - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| African Americans and the American Scene, 1929–1945 - Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA |
2011
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| Little Gems - Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Creative Continuum: The History of the Center for Creative Photography - Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
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| Selections Two - Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, CO |
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| Eye/object: Photographs From the Collection of Jonathan Williams - Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Polaroid [Im]Possible - WestLicht. Schauplatz für Fotografie, Vienna |
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| Magie des Objekts - Photographie aus drei Jahrhunderten - Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Abstract Expressionist New York - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON |
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| Shout Freedom! Photo League Selections from the Columbus Museum of Art - Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA |
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| Selections from Collections - Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Art For The People: 20th Century Social Realism - Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL |
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| Collecting Photographs: Ellen G. D'Oench and the Growth of a Collection - Davison Art Center, Middletown |
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| Collection Focus Iii: In Chicago - Samek Art Gallery , Lewisburg, PA |
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| Tracks: The Railroad in Photographs from the George Eastman House Collection - Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA |
2010
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| Selections from a Collection - Gitterman Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Ojos Privados: Selections from the Collection of Laurence Miller - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Luces en Alba: Dawning Lights in Mexican Photography - Kresge Art Museum, Lansing, MI |
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| Creative Continuum - Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
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| Aipad The Photography Show - Scheinbaum & Russek LTD, Santa Fe, NM |
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| La collection s'expose - Polaroïd en péril ! - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
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| Walker Evans, Imogen Cunningham + Aaron Siskind - G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Seeing Beauty - The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA |
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| In Focus: Photography from the Mills College Art Museum Colle - Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA |
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| On the Move - Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London (England) |
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| Textures of Interpretation: Meaning and Materiality in Global Contemporary Art - Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS |
2009
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| Fotografia Astratta - Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo, MI |
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| Focus on Four: Rhode Island Photographs by Gertrude Käsebier, Lewis Hine, Charlotte Estey and Aaron Siskind - Newport Art Museum & Art Association, Newport, RI |
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| Scheinbaum & Russek Presents: Spring 2010 - Scheinbaum & Russek LTD, Santa Fe, NM |
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| Icons of American Photographie - Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburg, PA |
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| The Private Collection of Fern M. Schad - Rick Wester Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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| Paper Proposes Pleasure & Sculptors - Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Gestures in Space and Light - Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL |
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| Beyond Beauty: Photographs from the Duke University Special Collections Library - Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC |
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| Women - Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne |
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| Forces of Nature - Danese, New York City, NY |
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| City/Country: Photographs from the Henry V. Heuser, Jr. Collection - Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY |
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| Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography from George Eastman House Collections - Paine Art Center and Gardens, Oshkosh, WI |
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| Right through the very Heart of it - Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Scottsdale, AZ |
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| Photography in the Abstract - Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX |
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| 20 / 20 - G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA |
2008
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| 1945-1949 Repartir à zéro, comme si la peinture n’avait jamais existé - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon |
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| Ojos privados Colección Laurence Miller - Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona |
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| Beyond the Familiar: Photography and the Construction of Community - Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA |
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| Abstract Expressionism - A World Elsewhere - Haunch of Venison - New York, New York City, NY |
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| A Mind at Play - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Gruppenausstellung - Galerie Thomas Flor, Dusseldorf |
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| Artitsts see Artists /Portraits 1895-1979 - - Deborah Bell/Photographs, New York City, NY (closed, 2011) |
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| Masters of Abstraction Exhibition - Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Masters of Black and White - Including Selections from The Drapkin Collection - FMoPA - Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL |
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| Looking Through the Lens: Photography 1900–1960 - The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD |
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| Degas to Diebenkorn: The Phillips Collects - The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| Les Archives de l´Imagination - BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels |
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| POST-WAR PERSPECTIVES 1945 -1960 - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Twenty Years (and Still Counting): Highlighs from Two Decades of Exhibitions - Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI |
2007
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| Moving Through New England - DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA |
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| Lisette Model, Aaron Siskind, & Gerald Slota - Hasted Kraeutler, New York City, NY |
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| Icons of American Photography - The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH |
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| Collector' Choices - Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Human Interest - Photoessays from the Collection - Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
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| ZEIT:ZEIT - Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin |
2006
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| From Fair to Fine - 20th-Century Photography Books That Matter - Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| My America: Art from The Jewish Museum Collection, 1900-1955 - Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY |
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| The Moon is Broken - A Collection of Photography and Poetry - Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA |
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| In Sight - Resent additions to the permanent collection - MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL |
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| 25th Anniversary Summer Celebration - Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ |
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| Black Mountain College: Its Time and Place - Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC |
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| Paper Works by Abstract Masters - Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Starting at Zero - Black Mountain College 1933-57 - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
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| My Collection - Museo Ken Damy, Brescia |
2005
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| Sign Language - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Surface - Group Show - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Exposed! - Thirty Years of collecting Photography - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY |
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| Town and Country: Modern Life in America - Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA |
2004
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| Celebrating the Jewish Contribution to 20th-Century American Art - The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI |
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| Photography at Colby - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
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| Abstract Photography in the Permanent Collection - DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA |
2003
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| Content - Rem Koolhaas und OMA-AMO - Bauten, Projekte und Konzepte seit 1996 - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Aaron Siskind and others - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Aaron Siskind & Carl Chiarenza - Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA |
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| Jump! - Photographers get off the ground - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT |
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| BAUHAUS / NEW BAUHAUS: Photography + Collage - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Les choix dCB - Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris |
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| New York - Capitale de la photographie (1900 – 2000) - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
2002
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| Taken by Design - photographs from the Institute of Design, Chicago, 1937-1971 - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Lens Landscapes - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
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| New York Observed: The Mythology of the City - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
2001
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| People and Places: The Baker Gift of 20th Century Photography - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
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| Aaron Siskind And Franz Kline: Expression Through Abstraction - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Picture This - Permanent Collection Photography - Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO |
2000
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| Photography in Boston - 1955-1985 - DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA |
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| Abstract Notions - Selections from the Permanent Collection - Amherst Fine Arts Center - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
1999
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| Images of Europe - Photographs from the Permanent Collection - DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA |
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| Coming to Life - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| New Photography Acquisitions and Permanent Collection - Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO |
1998
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| Waterproof/A Prova de Agua - Centro Cultural de Belém - CCB, Lisbon |
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| Harlem: Its Renaissance and After - NIU Art Museum - Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL |
1996
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| Double vie, Double vue - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris |
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| By Night - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris |
1994
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| temporary translations - Sammlung Schürmann - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Mexico through foreign eyes - Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan |
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| American Surrealist Photography - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1990
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| Group Show - - Galerie Max Hetzler - Cologne, Cologne (closed, 1993) |
1985
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| Variants - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1983
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| 19th & 20th Century Master - ArtSpace - Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables (Miami), FL |
1982
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| Les choix de l'œil : la photographie depuis 1940 - Musee du Bas-Saint-Laurent, Rivière-du-Loup, QC |
1981
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| Les choix de l'œil : la photographie depuis 1940 - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
1980
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| Photographic Crossroads, The Photo League - Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI |
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| Photography of the Fifties: An American Perspective - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1979
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| Photographic Crossroads, The Photo League - University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA |
1978
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| Photographes du XXe siècle : Stieglitz, Steichen et leurs successeurs - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| Photographic Crossroads, The Photo League - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Photographic Crossroads, The Photo League - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Photographic Crossroads, The Photo League - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
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| Photographic Crossroads: The Photo League - National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON |
1976
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| Masters of the Camera: Stieglitz, Steichen and Their Successors - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
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| Photographies anciennes de la collection de l'International Museum of Photography, Rochester, New York - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
1974
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| Public Landscapes: An Exhibition of Photographs - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1973
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| Photographer as Poet - Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1969
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| Photographs by Aaron Siskind and Joseph Jachna - Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI |
1968
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| Photography as Printmaking - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1964
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| The Photographer's Eye - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1961
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| Three Photographers: - Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI |
1960
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| The Sense of Abstraction - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1951
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| 9th Street Art Exhibition - - 9th Street Art Exhibition, New York City, NY (closed, 1951) |
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| Abstraction in Photography - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1950
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| Photographs by 51 Photographers - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1946
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| New Photographers - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
Dealer Directory 17 |
France
| | Galerie Françoise Paviot, Paris
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Germany
USA
| | Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
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| | Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
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| | Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL
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| | Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA
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| | Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
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| | Gitterman Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Hasted Kraeutler, New York City, NY
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| | Higher Pictures, New York City, NY
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| | Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, CO
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| | Scheinbaum & Russek LTD, Santa Fe, NM
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| | G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
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Italy
| | Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo, MI
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Japan
| | Yokohama Museum of Art, Nishi-ku, Yokohama
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| | National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT), Tokyo
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Switzerland
| | Fotostiftung Schweiz (Schweizerische Stiftung für die Photographie), Winterthur
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USA
| | Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
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| | Amherst Fine Arts Center - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
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| | UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
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| | Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
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| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, IL
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| | MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
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| | Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
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| | Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
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| | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
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| | DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
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| | The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
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| | Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
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| | Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
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| | Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
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| | Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
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| | The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
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| | The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
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| | David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI
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| | Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
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| | The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
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| | Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso, IN
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| | Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
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