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Aaron Siskind (1903-1991) was an American abstract expressionist photographer. In his biography he wrote that he began his foray into photography when he received a camera for a wedding gift and began taking pictures on his honeymoon. He quickly realized the artistic potential this offered. He worked in both New York City and Chicago.

Siskind's work focuses on the details of nature and architecture. He presents them as flat surfaces to create a new image out of them, which, he claimed, stands independent of the original subject.

He also created a celebrated series of socially concious images in the 40's in Harlem. He originally was an English teacher.

Aaron, along with Harry Callahan, taught photography at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois from the 1950's to the 1980's.

Book: "Siskind, Photographs" text by critic Harold Roseblum, published by Horizon in 1959.

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