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CALLAHAN, HARRY (1912-1999)
"Aix-en-Provence." Silver print, 12x9 1/4 inches (30.5x23.5 cm.), with Callahan's signature, in pencil, on recto; with his signature and numberic notation, in pencil, on verso. 1958; printed later
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Notes: This image is reproduced in harry callahan (New York: MoMA, 1967), p. 68.
Harry Callahan was a self-taught photographer who was born and raised in Detroit. In 1938 he acquired his first camera and joined the camera club at Chrysler Motors, where he was employed. Inspired by a lecture he attended by Ansel Adams, Callahan changed his camera format to 4x5 and began to take a more serious interest in photography and his art. In 1946 Callahan joined the faculty at the Institute of Design in Chicago. The Institute was founded on the ideas and philosophy of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, of the Bauhaus school. Later Callahan taught at the Rhode Island School of Design. Callahan focused his camera on the intimate details of his everyday life. He worked to express his personal relationship with his wife and daughter, allowing his inner closeness to be conveyed visually. In both portraiture and his abstract work interpreting the natural world he created an intimacy that went beyond the physical entity and into a realm of personal feeling and emotion.
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