Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation #474

Aaron Siskind (1903-1991)

Date

1954, printed ca. 1982
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Dimensions

Image: 16 15/16 x 17 in.
Sheet: 23 15/16 x 20 1/16 in.
Inscriptions

Sheet, verso:
c. in graphite: Aaron Siskind (signature)
l.l. in graphite: P. + T. of L. #474 1954
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of Finis Welch
Accession Number

P2021.46.125
Copyright

© Aaron Siskind Foundation

Beauty and Life: The Finis Welch Collection

February 20–May 8, 2022

Beauty and Life features a selection of artworks from a collection of over 240 photographs and works on paper gifted to the Carter by Texas collector Finis Welch. Photographs from Ansel Adams, Edward Steichen, Dorothea Lange, Marco Breuer, Edward Weston, and more are on view for the first time at the Carter.

Location: Off view

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