Boys in empty tenement, Harlem

Aaron Siskind

1935; printed 1981

  • Titles Boys in empty tenement, Harlem (Proper)@Harlem Document (Series)
  • Artist Aaron Siskind, American, 1903 - 1991
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions sheet: 14 × 10 7/8 in. (35.6 × 27.6 cm) image: 9 1/8 × 7 1/4 in. (23.2 × 18.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Howard and Ellen Greenberg, AFI.177.2017
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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