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Harry Callahan

Alley, Chicago, 1948

Description

Maker

  • Harry Callahan, 1912-1999, American, (RISD Faculty 1961 - 1976, Photography)

Title

Alley, Chicago

Year

1948

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • silver print

Dimensions

25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed beneath image LR

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Museum purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and Neuberger Fund

Object Number

74.090

Projects & Publications

Publications

RISD and Photography

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

RISD and Photography

June 5 - October 26, 2008

Callahan is known for his lyrical and original way of viewing the everyday in both urban and natural environments. He began making photographs in 1938 while working for Chrysler Corporation in Detroit. A workshop with Ansel Adams, famed and admired for his sharp-focused, majestic views of nature, awakened Callahan to the potential of the camera. He was also introduced by a colleague, Arthur Siegel, to László Moholy-Nagy’s experimental approach at the New Bauhaus School of Design (founded 1937) in Chicago. With remarkable insight, Callahan combined Bauhaus innovation with a belief that the medium could express a personal vision. Within the first few years of the 1940s, he developed nearly all of the subjects that would sustain him through a life in photography. Moholy-Nagy hired Callahan to teach with him in 1946 at the reincarnation of the New Bauhaus, the Institute of Design (from 1944), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, where Callahan continued until arriving at RISD in 1961

Harry Callahan

September 10 - December 5, 1999

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