Kansas City
1981
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View on museum website →Medium
dye imbibition print
Dimensions
overall (image): 24.3 x 36.7 cm (9 9/16 x 14 7/16 in.) sheet: 35.56 x 44.13 cm (14 x 17 3/8 in.) mat: 40.64 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Very Reverend and Mrs. Charles U. Harris Fund
Accession Number
1996.110.1
Art Historical Context
Harry Callahan's *Kansas City* (198) is a captivating dye imbibition print that exemplifies the artist's late-career exploration of color and urban abstraction. Born in 1912, Callahan was a towering figure in American photography, renowned for his innovative approaches at the Institute of Design in Chicago, where he pushed boundaries with multiple exposures, high contrasts, and elemental forms. By the 1980s, his work had evolved to embrace vibrant color printing techniques, making this 24.3 x 36.7 cm image a testament to his enduring curiosity about the American landscape. The dye imbibition ...
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...