Harry Callahan
Multiple Exposure Tree, Chicago
1955
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Harry Callahan
Multiple Exposure Tree, Chicago
1955
Physical Qualities
Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 428 x 354 mm. (16 7/8 x 13 15/16 in.)
Image: 338 x 334 mm. (13 5/16 x 13 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number
1988.258
Harry Callahan, a Michigan native, first took up photography in 1938. He was essentially self-taught, though he cited his 1941 meeting with the landscape photographer Ansel Adams at a Detroit Photo Guild workshop as a turning point in his career. Callahan joined the faculty at the Chicago-based Institute of Design in 1946, becoming the second head of the photography department in 1949. Working closely there with fellow artist Aaron Siskind, the team known as “HarryandAaron” set a new model for teaching photography, encouraging students to explore the medium as a means of self-expression.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Black, White & Abstract: Callahan, Siskind, White," May 17 - October 1, 2017.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Black, White & Abstract: Callahan, Siskind, White," May 17 - October 1, 2017.
Jonathan Greene, Book Review, Aperture, Vol. 13, no.4: 52-57 [68] ill. p. 57, p. 56 Harry Callahan: 38th Venice Biennial 1978, New York: Rizzoli, 1978, ill. p. 47. Harry Callahan Photographs, place?: Hallmark Photographic Collection, 1981, ill. p. 17. Harry Callahan, introductory essay by Sherman Paul, New York: MOMA, 1967, p. 9, ill. p. 66 Photographs Harry Callahan, Santa Barbara: Van Riper & Thompson, Inc., 1964, ill. p. 102
Inscribed: FACE: (singed in pencil) l.r. 'Harry Callahan'. VERSO: (pencil) b.ctr. 'EM 10V'
