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1950

Harry Callahan
American, 1912–1999

One of the most of import figures in modernistic American photography, Harry Callahan was a apprehensive and intuitive artist. He was largely self-taught, and as a teacher at Chicago'southward Institute of Blueprint (1946–61), he continued to larn by assigning photographic bug to students and and so solving them himself. Influenced by both the classicism of Ansel Adams and the experimentalism of László Moholy-Nagy, Callahan fused formal precision and exploration with personal subjectivity. He photographed a wide range of subjects—female person pedestrians lost in thought on Chicago's streets; architectural facades; his wife, Eleanor; and weeds and grasses in snow. Chicago, 1 of his best-known pictures, shows trees covered in snowfall along Chicago's Lake Shore Drive. Although Callahan captured all of the detail available in the bark and snowfall in his negative, he purposely printed this paradigm in loftier contrast to emphasize the black-and-white forms of the trees against the stark properties. With a graphic sensibility typical of the Establish of Design, Callahan reminds the viewer that a photograph is start and foremost an arrangement of tones and shapes on a piece of paper.

Condition: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Creative person: Harry Callahan
Title: Chicago
Origin: Chicago
Date: Fabricated 1950
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Signed recto, on mount, lower right, beneath image, in graphite: "Harry Callahan"; inscribed verso, on mountain, upper left, sideways, blue pencil: "Box 1#"; signed verso, center, in blue ink: "Harry Callahan"
Dimensions: xix.ii × 24.2 cm (image/paper); 20.2 × 25.iii cm (mount)
Credit Line: The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 1983.65

Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis and Colin Westerbeck. 1989. "On the Fine art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography." Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art/Art Found of Chicago. p. 387, cat. 306.
Forest, James North. 2000. "Treasures from The Art Constitute of Chicago." Hudson Hills Press, Inc. p. 291.
Travis, David and Elizabeth Siegel. 2002. "Taken by Design: Photographs from the Establish of Design, 1937–1971," Exh. true cat. Fine art Institute of Chicago/University of Chicago Press. p. 97, cat. 27, pl. 62.
Cuno, James and Eloise W. Martin. 2009. "Fine art Establish of Chicago: Pocketguide." Art Institute of Chicago. p. 53.
Sharp, Robert V., Elizabeth Stepina and Susan East. Weidemeyer. 2009. "The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide." Art Found of Chicago. p. 281.
Druick, Douglas and Robert Five. Sharp. 2013. "The Fine art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide." Fine art Establish of Chicago. p. 295.

Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, "On the Fine art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography," May 7–July 30, 1989; traveled to The Fine art Found of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; Los Angeles Canton Museum of Art, Dec 21, 1989–Feb 25, 1990.
Art Institute of Chicago, "A Measure of Nature: Mural Photographs from the Permanent Drove," May 30–September 7, 1998. (Sylvia Wolf)
Art Establish of Chicago, "Taken by Design: Photographs from The Institute of Pattern, 1937–1971," March 2–May 12, 2002; traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July twenty–October 20, 2002; and Philadelphia Museum of Art, December vii, 2002–March two, 2003. (David Travis and Elizabeth Siegel)
Tucson, Arizona, Center for Artistic Photography, "Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work," January 27–May 7, 2006; traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 24–September 24, 2006.

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