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Nature
by Sarah Greenough, John Szarkowski
Hardcover from Steidl
Media Published: 2008-
ISBN: 3865214371
This excellent collection of Callahan's photographs accompanies a national
tour of his work. Curator Greenough's (Robert Frank: Moving Out, LJ 10/15/94)
decision to arrange the images chronologically works well to illustrate
both the themes central to the photographer's aesthetic and his development
as an artist. From early experiments using multiple exposures and light
painting to the most recent color cityscapes, Callahan has sought to explore
photography's potential. He often returned again and again to the same
subject in a quest for yet a new way to "see" it via the camera. Now in
his eighties, Callahan is a 20th-century master of American photography
who places the highest value on the process of self-realization through
image-making rather than on any individual photograph or series of photographs.
His life's work stands as convincing testimony to this ideal. This retrospective
will be a fine addition to public and academic photography collections. |
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Harry
Callahan: The Photographer at Work
by Britt Salvesen
Hardcover from Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300113323
Harry Callahan (1912 ) was one of the most influential
photographic artists of the twentieth century. A master of modernist experimentation,
Callahan explored a range of subjects from landscapes to city streets to
portraits of his wife and techniques throughout his career.Beautifully
designed and produced, this book focuses on understanding how Callahan
worked both his day-to-day photographic explorations and his resulting
fifty-year career in photography. Exploring the rich contents of the Harry
Callahan Archive at the Center for Creative Photography, the authors look
at how Callahan's choice of subjects and visual ideas emerged from deliberate
and improvisational processes, and how such processes might be revealed
with archival materials such as negatives, transparencies, proof prints,
sequential ordering, and variant printings. 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a host of previously unpublished images and documents, this volume juxtaposes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 variants with final images
to explicate Callahan's life in and influence upon photography. Harry
Callahan: The Photographer at Work will offer a rare glimpse into the
creative process of an important and fascinating artist. |
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Eleanor
by Harry M. Callahan
Paperback from Callaway Editions
ISBN: 0935112111
For much of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, photographer Harry Callahan's wife,
Eleanor, was his most regular subject. She stares out of his acclaimed
work, sometimes sharp and sometimes blurred, sometimes Classical and sometimes
Modern, in public parks and city streets, at the beach, in a tent, in the
studio and their home, nude and clothed, eventually pregnant and then mothering.
The couple's longstanding collaboration makes up an intimate visual diary
of their relationship and of Callahan's artistic exploration: these are
seldom portraits in the traditional sense. More than studies of Eleanor,
they are stages in Callahan's lifelong exploration of photography as a
creative medium, showing his embrace of an array of materials and techniques,
including highly detailed large-format negatives, distortions of movement
and focus, silhouettes and multiple exposures. The subject was always Eleanor,
but there were always new ways of seeing her. |
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Landscape:
Theory
by Lewis Baltz, Harry Callahan, Eliot Porter
Hardcover from Lustrum Pr
ISBN: 0912810270
Photographs and essays by Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Harry Callahan,
Paul Caponigro, Hamish Fulton, William Garnett, Eliot Porter, Art Sinsabaugh,
George Tice, and Brett Weston. |
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Harry
Callahan
by National Gallery of Art, Harry M. Callahan, National Gallery of
Art (U.S.)
Hardcover from Bulfinch
A collection of photographs by Harry Callahan, whose interest in fine
art photography was sparked by Ansel Adam's visit to the Detroit Camera
Club in 1941. A celebrated photographer of nature, the city and women,
Callahan explores new ways of looking at and presenting the world. |
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Edward
Hopper & Company: Hopper's Influence on Photography
by Edward Hopper
Hardcover from Fraenkel Gallery
Media Published: 2009-
ISBN: 188133726X
British author Geoff Dyer once surmised that Edward Hopper "could claim
to be the most influential American photographer of the twentieth century-
even though he didn't take any photographs." What we see in Hopper's paintings
when we look at them through the lens of photography, and how, in turn,
the language of photography was influenced by Hopper's work, are the twin
subjects of Edward Hopper & Company. Thoughtfully curated and edited
by the respected San Francisco gallerist Jeffrey Fraenkel, seven paintings
and three drawings by Hopper are here thematically interlaced with carefully
selected photographs by eight of the masters of twentieth-century photography:
Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Harry Callahan, William Eggleston, Walker Evans,
Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander and Stephen Shore. As Fraenkel writes in
his introduction,"More than almost any American artist, Hopper has had
a pervasive impact on the way we see the world-so pervasive as to be almost
invisible. The photographs that follow are potent evidence of his legacy,
each a revelation of how one mediummight point to unimagined new possibilities
for another." In his intimate essay for this volume, photographer Robert
Adams identifies the singularity of Hopper's influence when he writes that
it was Hopper who enabled his artistic realization "One did not need to
be ashamed of having a heart." |
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Original
Sources: Art And Archives At The Center For Creative Photography
by Ansel Adams
Hardcover from Center for Creative Photography
Media Published: 2002-
ISBN: 0938262378
The Center for Creative Photography, located in Arizona, is home to
one of the largest and most eclectic photographic collections in the world.
This publication offers a virtual guided tour of the center's extensive
holdings, including a visit through the archives of some of the 20th century's
most important North American photographers: Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon,
Harry Callahan, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Lee Friedlander, Tina Modotti, Beaumont
& Nancy Newhall, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Paul Strand, Edward
Weston, and Garry Winogrand. With scholarly commentary on artists' books,
19th-century travel photography, early 20th-century travel albums, and
the CCP's collections of French, German, Japanese, Mexican, and Spanish
photography, Original Sources is the most comprehensive introduction to
one of photography's most treasured repositories. |
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Robert
Frank: Seven Stories (Bk. 1)
by Harry Callahan
Paperback from Steidl
Media Published: 2008-
ISBN: 3865217893
"It might be said that the subject of Callahan's photographs is photography,
and that his world exists essentially as a formal problem." John Szarkowski
Harry Callahan was one of the most respected and influential American
photographers of the modern era. He was a master of traditional genres
such as portraiture, landscape, architecture and nature studies, but also
experimented with new ways of using the medium. One of Callahan's favorite
themes was the repeating pattern, whether in multiple reeds reflected on
a lake's surface or the rows of windows on a building's facade. While lesser
known than some of his other work, Callahan's collages demonstrate an intense
interest in and profound understanding of the process of photographic seeing.
His collages are rigorous yet playful explorations of a visual world created
in his studio. The subject is either faces cut from magazines or rectangles
cut from black or white paper. Callahan then photographed the collages
pinned to his studio wall on his 8x10 inch view camera, one leading to
the next to create this never before published series. |
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