Chicago
c. 1949
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 5.7 x 5.5 cm (2 1/4 x 2 3/16 in.) mount: 24.1 x 18.8 cm (9 1/2 x 7 3/8 in.) mat: 35.56 x 27.94 cm (14 x 11 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Susan P. MacGill
Accession Number
1997.125.1
About the Artist
Harry Callahan
Harry Morey Callahan (1912–1999) was a pioneering American photographer whose self-taught ingenuity transformed everyday scenes into profound visual poetry. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he briefly studied engineering at Michigan State University before working at Chrysler, where he joined the company camera club. In 1938, Callahan took up photography as a hobby, but a 1941 lecture by Ansel Adams ins...