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Aaron Siskind _ Lehigh University Art Galleries, Jasmine

8/24 Blog

This image is titled, Recife (Olinda) 13 and shoot in Pernambuco, Brazil at 1986. This image is more of a documentary than an abstraction, Siskind used the black and white filter to emphasize the shape of the subject and the subject itself. The image captured a wooden square with a chain that connects something to it. It is not captured under perfectly vertical or perfectly horizontal way; the square is tilted but not too much. And you can also see a mark on the edge: IP. You can also see a strip in the wooden square, there seem to be some letters, but is not clear enough to see.

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  1. This is from his period of abstract photography and it is actually black and white film. A black and white filter would be used in digital photography. Good observation of the line direction, the chain and the letters.

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