Desert and Blue Sky, Egypt
1978, printed 1979
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View on museum website →Medium
dye imbibition print
Dimensions
image: 17.78 × 23.81 cm (7 × 9 3/8 in.) sheet: 21.5 × 26 cm (8 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Richard W. and Susan R. Gessner)
Accession Number
2015.19.4211
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...