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Aaron Siskind
Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation1953-1961, printed early 1980s

Not on view
Nine-panel black and white photograph grid, dark-skinned figures leaping and tumbling in high-contrast silhouette against white backgrounds
Artist or Maker
Aaron Siskind
Title
Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1953-1961, printed early 1980s
Medium
Gelatin-silver prints
Dimensions
Framed: 41 x 40 in.
Credit Line
The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin
Accession Number
M.2008.40.1842.1-.9
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Salvesen, Britt. See the Light: Photography, Perception, Cognition: the Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2013.