Harry
Callahan
History
Callahan, HarryAmerican, 1912-99
Self-taught in photography, Harry Callahan enjoys [Callahan died in 1999] a long and influential career which began in 1938. Callahan's early photographic work was influenced by Ansel Adams, whom Callahan heard lecture, and by the life of Alfred Stieglitz.
Callahan's work is personally oriented; many of his pictures artistically interpret his family relationships, especially portraits of his wife, Eleanor, and daughter, Barbara. His early work experimented with representational abstraction; recent work in color includes additional subject matter, both city and landscapes as well as multiple exposures.
Detroit
1943
Eleanor
1945
Eleanor
1947
Windows
1948
Eleanor and Barbara
1953
Kansas City
1981
Morocco
1981
