Selected Images from Artists’ Sessions at 'Studio 35'
Captured during the landmark three-day artists' symposium held in New York in 1950, Aaron Siskind's fifteen gelatin silver prints document an intimate gathering of Abstract Expressionist luminaries including Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Adolph Gottlieb. Siskind's photographs offer a candid, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the intellectual and creative discourse that helped define a pivotal moment in American art history. The series reflects Siskind's own deep connection to the abstract art world, bridging his dual identity as both a photographer and a peer among the movement's most influential figures.
- Medium
- 15 gelatin silver prints.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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April 3, 2013
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Artists in conversation
Henri Cartier-Bresson
French · b. 1908
Cartier-Bresson similarly used gelatin silver prints and candid documentary photography to capture intimate gatherings of artists and intellectuals, preserving decisive moments of creative and cultural significance in mid-20th century art circles.
Arnold Newman
American · b. 1918
Newman specialized in black and white documentary portraits of major American artists and Abstract Expressionists including de Kooning and Kline, situating his subjects within their creative environments to reveal the intellectual energy of the postwar New York art world.
Hans Namuth
German-American · b. 1915
Namuth is best known for his candid gelatin silver documentary photographs of Abstract Expressionist artists at work in the same 1950s New York milieu, capturing figures like Jackson Pollock with the same behind-the-scenes intimacy that defines Siskind's symposium series.
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