Siskind, Aaron. Harlem: The 30s. Photographs by Aaron Siskind. A Book of Postcards. Annuals Color Theory and Lighting

Color Theory and Lighting

and "Photographing Odysseus

Fourth Edition (1989)

common laborers—who were previously excluded from the expensive portrait culture of the upper classes—could afford to document themselves

Note:  John Pfahl was born in Manhattan on February 17

Siskind, Aaron. Harlem: The 30s. Photographs by Aaron Siskind. A Book of Postcards. Annuals Color Theory and LightingPomegranate Books in cooperation with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Insititution, 1992. 30 postcards of African Americans in Harlem by Siskind, copyrighted 1940. Issued in connection with a traveling exhibition, the images are in the permanent collection of the museum. [In the late 1930s, Siskind was the leader of the Harlem Document, a project of the Photo League.] Like new with very minor edge wear. Summary: Harlem: The 30s.