Siskind, Aaron. Harlem: The 30s. Photographs by Aaron Siskind. A Book of Postcards. Untitled (Friends of Photography) Smithsonian Research and Historical Context

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Siskind, Aaron. Harlem: The 30s. Photographs by Aaron Siskind. A Book of Postcards. Untitled (Friends of Photography) Smithsonian Research and Historical ContextPomegranate 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.