We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

He quickly realized the artistic potential this offered. Siskind's work focuses on the details of nature and architecture. A major character in the film One Hour Photo (about a disturbed photograph developer who stalks what he sees as the perfect family) is named after Siskind.

Siskind is not the main (psychologically disturbed) character nor is the film in any way modeled after the life and works of Aaron Siskind. The character of Mr. Among them the "Harlem Document" remains the most famous.