Harry Callahan

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Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan (born October 22, 1912 in Detroit , † March 15, 1999 in Atlanta ) was an American photographer who is regarded as one of the most innovative and influential people in modern American photography.

biography

Harry Callahan was born in Detroit , Michigan in 1912 and studied engineering at Michigan State College from 1931 to 1933 . In 1933 he met Elenor Knapp on a blind date. They married three years later and in 1950 his daughter Barbara was born.

In 1938 he began to photograph as an autodidact , where he was particularly impressed and inspired by the works of Alfred Stieglitz and Minor White . In 1941 he became a member of the Detroit Photo Guild, and from 1944 to 1945 he worked in General Motors' photo lab .

From 1946 to 1961, on the recommendation of Arthur Siegel, he became a lecturer in photography under László Moholy-Nagy at the Institute of Design in Chicago, and during this time began to deal with photography of the Bauhaus and the New Objectivity . In 1954 he participated in the exhibition subjective picture 2 of Otto Steinert in part, in 1968 he had a major solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City . From 1961 to 1973 he was director and later teacher of the photography department at the Rhode Island School of Design , and in 1977 he retired from there. Harry Callahan died in 1999.

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Henry Callahan is widely recognized as one of the most innovative and influential photographers in modern American photography. His oeuvre encompasses a wide range of subjects from nude photography to landscape shots to cityscapes and other scenes that he has left behind in a number of different ways.

Exhibitions

  • 2013: Harry Callahan - retrospective . House of Photography, Deichtorhallen , Hamburg

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Sarah Greenough: Harry Callahan. Retrospective, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown and Company, Boston et al. a. 1996, ISBN 978-0821223130 . (In English)
  • Jonathan Williams: Aperture Masters - Harry Callahan. Könemann, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-8290-2890-3 .
  • Dirk Luckow, Sabine Schnakenberg (ed.): Harry Callahan. Retrospective, House of Photography Deichtorhallen Hamburg. Kehrer, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3868283587 . (In English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Suzanne Muchnic: Eleanor Callahan at this 95; subject of photos by husband, Harry . In: Los-Angeles Times . Retrieved December 21, 2014. 
  2. ↑ Honorary Members: Harry Callahan. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Callahan, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1999
Place of death Atlanta