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Harry Callahan

Eleanor

Description

Maker

Harry Callahan (American, 1912-1999 b. Detroit, Michigan)

Title

Eleanor

Year

ca. 1947

Medium

  • gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • gelatin silver print

Materials

silver print

Dimensions

Image: 11.6 x 8.6 cm (4 9/16 x 3 3/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed LR

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gilman Angier

Object Number

78.040

Type

  • Photographs

Projects & Publications

Publications

Pub_ID 312 A Handbook of the Museum of Art v_01.jpg
  • Books

A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

RISD and Photography
Jun 05, 2008 – Oct 26, 2008

Label copy

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
A Selection from the Permanent Collection
Sep 10, 1999 – Dec 05, 1999
The RISD Eye
Photographs by Faculty and Alumni from the Permanent Collection
Mar 08, 1991 – May 05, 1991
Capturing the Light
150 Years of Photography
Sep 22, 1989 – Nov 12, 1989

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Harry Callahan (American, 1912-1999 b. Detroit, Michigan)
Eleanor, ca. 1947
Gelatin silver print
Image: 11.6 x 8.6 cm (4 9/16 x 3 3/8 inches)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gilman Angier 78.040

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