Aaron Siskind

Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation 151

1962

A person captured mid-air in a dynamic tuck jump with arms and legs bent.
A person captured mid-air in a dynamic tuck jump with arms and legs bent.

Aaron Siskind, Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation 151, 1962. Gelatin silver print, image: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in. (35.4 × 27.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Aaron Siskind Foundation courtesy Robert Mann Gallery, New York 2004.12

Recto

Not on view

Date
1962

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Image: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in. (35.4 × 27.8 cm)

Accession number
2004.12

Credit line
Gift of the Aaron Siskind Foundation courtesy Robert Mann Gallery, New York

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/20013




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