Harry Callahan
Chicago
1950
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Harry Callahan
Chicago
1950
Physical Qualities
Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 280 x 355 mm. (11 x 14 in.)
Image: 213 x 317 mm. (8 3/8 x 12 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Barbara and Gene Polk, Prescott, Arizona
Object Number
2003.286
In 1950, Callahan took a series of close-up photographs of the faces of individual Chicago pedestrians using a telephoto lens. These anonymous portraits captured people lost in their thoughts and emotions while walking amid crowds.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift 2003; Eugene and Barbara Polk, Prescott, Arizona.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.
Inscribed: RECTO: LR (graphite): [artist signature] "Harry Callahan"; VERSO: at upper left, in graphite: "EM 75"; at upper center, in graphite: "Harry Callahan"
Markings: None
