Dead End: The Bowery
work by Siskind
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Aaron Siskind's photographic series, Dead End: The Bowery, is known for its focus on design alongside the plight of its subjects. The Bowery, a street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, historically evolved from a farm road to a center for theater, and later degenerated into a skid-row area by the 1880s. Siskind's work from this period, like Dead End: The Bowery, shows an equal concern for pure design as it does for the difficult circumstances of the people he photographed.12
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