Harry callahan photographer early color photographs
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Harry Callahan: New Color Photographs,
First University of New Mexico Press edition of Harry Callahan: New Color Photographs, ()
Large format hardback in near fine condition
Some wear and tear to dust jacket, now in a removable protective sleeve
Some very slight toning to extremities of pages
Otherwise, binding firm, pages clean
About
Callahan's work embodies thirty-five years of investigation into the expressive and structural potential of photography--an investigation that has been both uncompromisingly rigorous and intensely personal. HIs photographs reproduced here in the most complete selection ever published, reveal new dimensions of the medium's creative possibilities. Whether photographing his family, pedestrians on Chicago streets, or the beaches of Cape Cod, his vision has always been precise, defining the subject, and culminating with images of eloquent strength and balance.
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Biography
Harry Callahan was born in stad, studied engineering at Michigan State University, and worked for Chrysler before taking up photography as a hobby in Callahan cited a visit by Ansel Adams to his local camera club in as the time he began to view photography seriously. Self-taught as a photographer, he funnen work in the General Motors Photographic Laboratories. In , shortly after meeting László Moholy-Nagy, he was asked to join the faculty of the New Bauhaus (later known as the Institute of Design) in Chicago, where he became chairman of the photography department in He left Chicago in to head the photography department at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he remained until He has won many awards for his photography, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in and the Photographer and Educator Award from the Society for Photographic Education in , and he was designated Honored Photographer of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, France in , an
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Harry Callahan () purchased his first camera in , when he was a 26 year-old clerk in the shipping department of Chrysler Motors. While there, he joined the Chrysler camera club and then the Detroit Photo Guild. In , he met Ansel Adams while taking a workshop with him in which he learned the value of the precise print. In the summer of , Callahan traveled to New York to meet Alfred Stieglitz whose series of portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe inspired him to begin the decades-long series of portraits of his wife Eleanor.
Around this time, Callahan befriended Detroit-area photographer, Arthur Siegel, who was a practicing photojournalist. Siegel had studied with László Moholy-Nagy, a European émigré who founded the New Bauhaus school in Chicago. Through informal gatherings at Siegel’s house, he became acquainted with Moholy-Nagy’s Bauhaus teachings. Within two years, Callahan had developed the themes and techniques that would characterize his year career, many of which were derived from Ba