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Overview
Known for his boldly innovative explorations of his everyday life as well as the natural and urban landscape, Harry Callahan is a giant in the world of photography. This remarkable book, which includes more than 100 beautifully reproduced photographs, traces Callahan's career from the early 1940s to the present day and illuminates the connections between his subject matter and his constant experimentation. Callahan has consistently explored new ways of looking at the world around him - from high-contrast photographs of trees silhouetted against snow, to double exposures of his wife's nude figure merging into landscapes, to minimal abstractions - but he has used these experiments to reveal his relationships to the world around him. As a teacher at the Institute of Design in Chicago and the Rhode Island School of Design, he has influenced generations of younger photographers - and will continue to influence the art of photography for decades to come.Editorials
Library Journal
This excellent collection of Callahan's photographs accompanies a national tour of his work. Curator Greenough's (Robert Frank: Moving Out, LJ 10/15/94) decision to arrange the images chronologically works well to illustrate both the themes central to the photographer's aesthetic and his development as an artist. From early experiments using multiple exposures and light painting to the most recent color cityscapes, Callahan has sought to explore photography's potential. He often returned again and again to the same subject in a quest for yet a new way to "see" it via the camera. Now in his eighties, Callahan is a 20th-century master of American photography who places the highest value on the process of self-realization through image-making rather than on any individual photograph or series of photographs. His life's work stands as convincing testimony to this ideal. This retrospective will be a fine addition to public and academic photography collections.Kathy J. Anderson, Indiana Univ., BloomingtonBooknews
Catalogue for an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and scheduled to travel to a number of cities during 1996 and 1997. Unlike other exhibitions of Callahan's work, this one organizes his photos chronologically, rather than by subject, describing the growth of his visual life from its genesis in Detroit in the early 1940s, its flowering in Chicago in the late 1940s and 1950s, and its maturation in Providence and Atlanta in the years thereafter. Greenough's essay discusses his artistic vision. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
May 3, 2001
Publisher
Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art, 1996.
Pages
200
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780821227275