1941 . . . Tabernacle City is exhibited at the Photo League
1945 . . . Marriage to Sonia is annulled
1947 . . . Travels to California; visits Yavno in Los Angeles and Edward Weston in Carmel
1947-51 . . . Teaches part-time at Trenton Junior College in New Jersey and at the California School of Fine Arts
1949 . . . Travels to California to visit Yavno; visits Frederick Sommer in Prescott, Arizona
1951 . . . Teaches during the summer at Black Mountain College
1951-71 . . . Joins the faculty at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
1952 . . . Marries Cathy Spencer
1955 . . . First of many trips to Mexico
1957 . . . Divorces Cathy; Frederick Sommer shares Siskind's apartment while teaching at the Institute of Design
1958 . . . Lectures at the Art Institute of Chicago
1959 . . . Publication of Aaron Siskind: Photographs (New York: Horizon Press)
1960 . . . Marries Caroline Brandt
1961 . . . Appointed head of photography program at the Institute of Design; travels to Mexico
1963 . . . Founding member of the Society for Photographic Education; travels to Greece and Italy
1964 . . . Becomes director of the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York
1965 . . . First major retrospective exhibition at George Eastman House in Rochester, New York
1966-67 . . . Awarded John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship; travels to Mexico, Greece and Italy
1970 . . . Travels to Greece and Italy
1971-76 . . . Teaches photography at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence (RISD)
1972 and 73 . . . Travels to Mexico; Terrors and Pleasures of Levitation portfolio published
1974 . . . Travels to Jalapa, Mexico
1975 . . . Archive acquired by the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona
1976 . . . Wife Caroline dies; retires from teaching at RISD; receives award from the National Endowment for the Arts in Photography
1979-81 . . . Travels to Hawaii, England, France, Peru, Spain and Mexico
1982 . . . Travels to Mexico and Morocco; Aaron Siskind: Pleasures and Terrors by Carl Chiarenza is published (Boston: Little, Brown, in association with the Center for Creative Photography)
1983 . . . Aaron Siskind Day (30 September) declared in Rhode Island; travels to Peru
1985 . . . Travels to Mexico, Italy and Peru; the Aaron Siskind Center for Photography at the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design opens; exhibits at the university in Veracruz, Mexico; travels to Brazil and Turkey, where he breaks his leg
1991 . . . Dies February 11 in Providence, Rhode Island
[Information from Carl Chiarenza, Aaron Siskind: Pleasures and Terrors (Boston and Tucson: Little, Brown and Center for Creative Photography, 1982); Robert Lane, "Aaron Siskind: A Chronology 1903-91" in History of Photography 16 (Autumn 1992): 289.]
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