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Peer through the peculiar lens of photographer Aaron Siskind

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Major American photographer Aaron Siskind gets his first retrospective in book form. by Aimee Levitt When Aaron Siskind arrived in Chicago in 1951 to teach photography at the Institute of Design (formerly the New Bauhaus), he was in the midst of a creative metamorphosis. During the 1930s he had been a member of the Workers Film and Photo League in New York and took documentary photographs, mostly of daily life in Harlem.…

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