Girl with clothes form, Harlem

Aaron Siskind

1937; printed 1981

  • Titles Girl with clothes form, Harlem (Proper)@Harlem Document (Series)
  • Artist Aaron Siskind, American, 1903 - 1991
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 7/8 in. (35.2 × 27.6 cm) image: 11 × 7 7/8 in. (27.9 × 20 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Howard and Ellen Greenberg, AFI.182.2017
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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In this black and white photograph, a woman sits to the right of a door, holding a young, blonde child in her arms. The child holds her head and curls her legs on the woman's lap. The woman has dark hair and is wearing a sleeveless dress and one shoe. She is smiling broadly. The black and white photograph is adhered to a buff mount.
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