Aaron Siskind

Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation 39

1960

A man in swim trunks leaps upward mid-air with arms outstretched against a white background.
A man in swim trunks leaps upward mid-air with arms outstretched against a white background.

Aaron Siskind, Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation 39, 1960. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 13/16 in. (35.2 × 27.5 cm) Image: 11 × 10 in. (27.9 × 25.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 2003.312

Recto

Not on view

Date
1960

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 13/16 in. (35.2 × 27.5 cm) Image: 11 × 10 in. (27.9 × 25.4 cm)

Accession number
2003.312

Edition
Vintage

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/20014




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