About US-american photographer Harry CALLAHAN (1912-1999)
Harry CALLAHAN was one of the most influential people in modern American photographic history. He studied engineering at Michigan State College from 1931 to 1933. In 1938, he began taking photographs as a self-taught photographer, and was particularly impressed and inspired by works by Alfred STIEGLITZ and Minor WHITE. In 1941 he became a member of the Detroit Photo Guild; from 1946 to 1961 he was under László MOHOLY-NAGY at the Institute of Design in Chicago, during which time he began to study Bauhaus and New Objectivity photography. In 1954 he participated in the exhibition 'Subjective Photography 2' by Otto STEINERT, and from 1961 to 1973 he was head and later teacher of the photography department of the Rhode Island School of Design. Harry CALLAHAN died in 1999.
Photo books by and on the work of Harry CALLAHAN (a selection)
- 'Color. 1941-1980' (1980)
'Eleanor' (2007)
'Seven Collages' (2012)
'Catalog Retrospektive' (2013)
'He, she, it' (2013, with Edward WESTON)
'The Street' (2016)
'Morocco' (announced by the publisher)