Aaron Siskind

Facade, Unoccupied Building, Harlem
1937, printed 1981

Black and white photograph of a symmetrical five-story building facade with boarded-up windows and a series of posters on the ground level. The building exhibits architectural uniformity with repetitive window patterns and a flat roofline. The photograph is framed with a white border and signed by the artist in the lower right corner.
Black and white photograph of a symmetrical five-story building facade with boarded-up windows and a series of posters on the ground level. The building exhibits architectural uniformity with repetitive window patterns and a flat roofline. The photograph is framed with a white border and signed by the artist in the lower right corner.

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Date
1937, printed 1981

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 14in. (27.6 × 35.6 cm) Image: 9 × 11 11/16in. (22.9 × 29.7 cm)

Accession number
2020.215

Edition
Edition unknown

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Howard Greenberg

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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