Harlem Document: Photographs 1932-1940 Fotografia di strada trying to find common forms

trying to find common forms and themes – the connections that built the story about his being away from home

A book within a book— an artist book contained within a 256-page facsimile of the artist’s family’s telephone book for his hometown of Fond du Lac (“Bottom of the Lake”)

Michael Shannon

These pictures of women going about their daily business are at once banal and extraordinary

and cell phones that they charge on car batteries or solar panels

Harlem Document: Photographs 1932-1940 Fotografia di strada trying to find common formsFirst edition of Harlem Document: Photographs 1932 1940 by Aaron Siskind. First impression. Medium format hardback in good condition. Some glue marks to the front end page but otherwise all pages and spine are clean and intact and the binding is firm. About A portrait of Black urban America and the people, culture, and lifestyles of Harlem during the 1930s