The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 18, 2024

Chicago 22

Chicago 22

1949
(American, 1903–1991)
America, 20th century
Vintage gelatin silver print
Image: 17.3 x 34.2 cm (6 13/16 x 13 7/16 in.); Paper: 21 x 35.4 cm (8 1/4 x 13 15/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Gift of Museum members in 1989 1989.464
© Aaron Siskind Foundation
Location: not on view

Description

Aaron Siskind began his photographic career in 1932, working in a social-documentary style. By 1944, however, he began to concentrate on radically different images that helped define an important mode of contemporary photographic expression. He isolated objects from their surroundings and transformed them into abstract images organized according to such formal concerns as composition, texture, scale, and the elimination of illusion. In Chicago 22, Siskind used a close-up view of peeling paint on a weathered wood wall to create a visually engaging image.
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    Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 321
  • Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007); Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA (October 3, 2009-January 3, 2010).
    The Cleveland Museum of Art (6/24/07 - 9/16/07) and Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittburgh, PA (10/3/2009 - 1/3/2010); "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art", no exhibition catalogue.
    Aaron Siskind Photographs. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 13-November 14, 1999).
    Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; July 13 - November 14, 1999. "Aaron Siskind Photographs."
    CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art."
    Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).
    CMA, Nov. 18, 1992 - Jan. 3, 1993: "Contemporary American Photographers," CMA Bulletin, 79 (Nov. 1992), p. 351, no. 61, repr. p. 310.
    CMA, Feb. 6 - April 15, 1990: "Year in Review 1989," CMA Bulletin, 77 (Feb. 1990), p. 72, no. 125 (not exhibited).
  • {{cite web|title=Chicago 22|url=false|author=Aaron Siskind|year=1949|access-date=18 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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