Harry Callahan : the photographer at work
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Copy number Shelfmark Shelf mark R013678 Ned. Fotomuseum USA MON CALLAHAN.H 2006
TitleHarry Callahan : the photographer at work
Corporate author
Photographer
Place of publicationTucson, New Haven, Conn.
Year of publication2006
Pagination192 p.
IllustrationsZwart-Wit en kleur
Dimensions31 x 25 cm.
MaterialMonografie
Document TypeBook
ISBN0300113323978030011332709382623949780938262398
Bibliographic Noteshc; Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-192).
Abstract
"This catalogue was produced in conjunction with the exhibition Harry Callahan: the photographer at work, organized by the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona ... presented at Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, January 27-- May 7, 2006; the Art Institute of Chicago, June 24--September 24, 2006"--T.p. verso.
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"Harry Callahan (1912-1999) was one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. A master of modernist experimentation, Callahan explored a range of themes—"nature, buildings, and people," as he put it in 1975—throughout his career, using a variety of techniques and approaches. -
Callahan once remarked, "You could have maybe a whole man's life in a body of photography." This book focuses on Callahan through his work—both his day-to-day photographic explorations and his resulting sixty-year career as an artist. Drawing upon the rich contents of the Harry Callahan Archive at the Center for Creative Photography, the authors look at how Callahan expressed his visual ideas through deliberate and improvisational processes, and how such processes might be revealed in archival materials such as negatives, transparencies, proof prints, and contact sheets. This close investigation of Callahan's individual and experimental approach to materials in turn leads to a larger consideration of his relationship to seemingly contradictory strains in American visual culture of the twentieth century. -
Reproducing a host of previously unpublished images and documents, this volume juxtaposes select artifacts—such as contact sheets and negatives—with final images to explicate Callahan's photographic achievement. Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work offers a rare glimpse into the creative process of an important and fascinating artist."
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Preface and acknowledgments / Douglas R. Nickel. -- Foreword / John Szarkowski. -- Harry Callahan: the photographer at work / Britt Salvesen. -- Plates. -- The archives of Harry Callahan / Amy Rule.
We cite from the cover: -
"Harry Callahan (1912-1999) was one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. A master of modernist experimentation, Callahan explored a range of themes—"nature, buildings, and people," as he put it in 1975—throughout his career, using a variety of techniques and approaches. -
Callahan once remarked, "You could have maybe a whole man's life in a body of photography." This book focuses on Callahan through his work—both his day-to-day photographic explorations and his resulting sixty-year career as an artist. Drawing upon the rich contents of the Harry Callahan Archive at the Center for Creative Photography, the authors look at how Callahan expressed his visual ideas through deliberate and improvisational processes, and how such processes might be revealed in archival materials such as negatives, transparencies, proof prints, and contact sheets. This close investigation of Callahan's individual and experimental approach to materials in turn leads to a larger consideration of his relationship to seemingly contradictory strains in American visual culture of the twentieth century. -
Reproducing a host of previously unpublished images and documents, this volume juxtaposes select artifacts—such as contact sheets and negatives—with final images to explicate Callahan's photographic achievement. Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work offers a rare glimpse into the creative process of an important and fascinating artist."
CONTENTS : -
Preface and acknowledgments / Douglas R. Nickel. -- Foreword / John Szarkowski. -- Harry Callahan: the photographer at work / Britt Salvesen. -- Plates. -- The archives of Harry Callahan / Amy Rule.
| Copy number | R013678 |
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| Shelf mark | USA MON CALLAHAN.H 2006 |