aron siskind was born in December 4, 1903 and passed away on

February 8, 1991. He was a photographer that focused on detail

of little things in other words flat surface to create a new images
of the original image. He was born in New York city and grew up
on the lower east side. After he graduated from city college he
became a English teacher. He was a teacher for about 25 years
and then started photography. The way he started photography
was that he received a camera as a wedding gift and took it to
his honey mood and started to take pictures in his honey mood.
In his early career siskind was a member of the New York league
he significant socially showed a series of images in 1930 among
the Harlem document. In 1950 siskind met harry Callahan and
were both teaching ay black mountain college in the summer.
Later on Callahan convinced siskind to join him as part of a facil-
ity called IIT institute of design in Chicago. In 1971 he followed
Callahan who left in 1961 he was invited to teach at Rhode Is-
land school of design and then both retired in the late 1970. Sis-
kind did different type of photography for example, close up de-
tails of painted walls, asphalt pavement, rocks and lava flows,
and cracked peeling paint on weathered surface. He also in-
cluded work that was done in Rome in 1963 and 1967, Mexico in
the 1970 and in 1980 works such as tar series in providence, Ver-
mont, and route 88 near Westport, Rhode Island. He continued
to do photography until his death on February 8,1991. he died of
a stroke on February 8,1991.

Not the origi-

nal picture
he created a
This is one of the rock
new one
pictures he took