Siskind, Aaron: Pleasures and Terrors

Carl Chiarenza

New York Graphic Society/Little Brown

1982

First Edition

Pleasures and Terrors. Photographs by Aaron Siskind. Text by Carl Chiarenza. Foreword by James L. Enyeart. New York Graphic Society/Little, Brown, and Co., Boston in association with Center for Creative Photography, 1982. 283 pp. First edition. Quarto. Hardcover. With the photo illustrated dust jacket. 74 duotone and 198 halftone reproductions. Signed by Aaron Siskind on a presentation page bound into the book which reads: The Center for Creative Photography is pleased to present this copy of Aaron Siskind: Pleasures and Terrors signed by the artist for the members of The Presidents Club of the University of Arizona Foundation. Good plus in a good plus dust jacket.This beautiful retrospective monograph and biography does justice to Siskind's career as a photographer of the abstract, which paralleled the development of the abstract expressionists, as well as his earlier imagery of Harlem, his levitation series, the Bucks County essay, and many lesser-known photographs. Chiarenza wrote a beautiful and highly informative account of the life of this great photographer and teacher.