Early Work

Weed Against the Sky (EM97)

Weed Against the Sky (EM97)

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1948, printed later '70's
Size: 6x6"

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Ivy Tentacles on Glass

Ivy Tentacles on Glass

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1952, printed later 1970's
Size: 7 5/8 x 9 5/8"

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Rome

Rome

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1968, printed 1970's
Size: 7x7"

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Leaf, Detroit

Leaf, Detroit

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1942
Size: 8x10"

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Eleanor, Chicago (EM2)

Eleanor, Chicago (EM2)

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1948
Size: 10x9"

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Eleanor

Eleanor

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1948
Size: 8.5x12"

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Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago

Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1943
Size: 8x10"

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Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago on Bed

Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago on Bed

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1954
Size: 8.5x8.5"

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Eleanor in the Woods

Eleanor in the Woods

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date:
Size: 8x10"

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Eleanor

Eleanor

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date:
Size: 8x10"

This photograph is not available at this time.

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Eleanor, Port Huron

Eleanor, Port Huron

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1954
Size: 7x6.75"

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Cuzco, Peru

Cuzco, Peru

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1974
Size: 11x14"

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BIOGRAPHY

harry-callahan

Harry M. Callahan

(American, b. 1912 – 1999)

Harry Morey Callahan was one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century and is best known for utilizing the objectivity of straight photography to produce works that reinvented reality, “to charge it with personal, even mythic, resonance.” (Davis)

Callahan was the son of a Midwestern farmer who moved to Detroit to get work in the auto factories. He purchased his first camera in 1938, 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 1941, he met Ansel Adams who gave a workshop in Detroit. Callahan was struck by “Adam’s crisp nature studies and precise prints… [which] stood in stark contrast with the soft-focus, manipulated imagery practiced in the camera clubs.” Adams’ pictures demonstrated how clear, sharp, highly detailed descriptions of the visible world could be expressive. Adams offered him Stieglitz’s model of transcendentalism and equivalency. “I wanted something important, something spiritual in my life then” Callahan later said. In the summer of 1942, Callahan traveled to New York to meet Stieglitz, but was too intimidated to show his photographs. He admired Stieglitz’s series of portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe, which inspired him to begin the decades-long series of portraits of his wife Eleanor.