Alley, Chicago
Artist
Harry Callahan
(American, 1912 - 1999)
Date1948
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 7/16 × 6 15/16 inches (23.97 × 17.62 cm)
Sheet: 9 9/16 × 7 1/16 inches (24.29 × 17.94 cm)
Mount: 9 9/16 × 7 1/16 inches (24.29 × 17.94 cm)
Sheet: 9 9/16 × 7 1/16 inches (24.29 × 17.94 cm)
Mount: 9 9/16 × 7 1/16 inches (24.29 × 17.94 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.298
SignedSigned on mount verso, top center, in pencil: "Harry Callahan"
InscribedOn mount verso, top center, in pencil: "#2 in show / Chicago 1948"
MarkingsOn mount verso, top right corner, in pencil: "Acc:8-2-64" / "#77" [circled]
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One of the most original and influential of American photographers, Harry Callahan came to the medium without formal training in the arts. What he had was far more important: a deep desire to express himself and a profoundly original visual imagination. Callahan acquired his first camera in 1938 and made rapid progress in the early 1940s. In 1946, he began a celebrated teaching career at the Institute of Design in Chicago. This work-created by making nearly 20 individual exposures on a single sheet of film-is characteristic of Callahan's inventive approach. A "simple" subject is fractured, expanded and transformed-the single moment becomes an extended duration of time; solid things are rendered transparent and dynamic.
Copyright© The Estate of Harry Callahan. Courtesy Pace Gallery, New York.
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