Abstract Expressionism Universe
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1903–1991
Photographer whose increasingly abstract work was exhibited alongside Abstract Expressionist painters and later framed by MoMA as a key photographic connection.
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MoMA calls Siskind the photographer most closely associated with Abstract Expressionism; the Art Institute of Chicago records that he befriended Abstract Expressionist painters and exhibited increasingly abstract photographs alongside theirs at Charles Egan Gallery.
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