Harry Callahan: Retrospective
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Harry Callahan: Retrospective Details
About the Author Harry Callahan(October 22, 1912, in Detroit – March 15, 1999, in Atlanta) was an influential twentieth century American photographer. Since his first one-person show in 1947, Callahan’s work has been the subject of over 60 solo and group exhibitions, including retrospectives organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. He left behind 100,000 negatives and over 10,000 proof prints.Dirk Luckow, born in 1958 in Hamburg, has been the general director of the museum Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany, since October 2009.Sabine Schnakenberg, is chief curator of the FC Gundlach Collection at the Haus der Photographie at museum Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany. Read more
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Reviews
This is a catalog from a museum show and presents the pictures in strict chronology. I am not aware of Callahan publishing books or portfolios in his lifetime (e.g., "The Americans") which might have argued for a non-chronological presentation.The quality of the reproductions is outstanding and the size is just fine - the largest plates measuring 5" x 8".Callahan's is a restrained aesthetic, with no interest in grandeur and sweep - or shock value, for that matter. His color photography, starting in the '40s, is superb and was unknown to me. There is something of a fall-off in the later work, done after he retired from teaching and was traveling. But he continued to produce masterpieces into his seventies.The essays are decent and the scholarly apparatus excellent: in German and English. Unfortunately, the English is printed in something of a lite taupe which makes it hard to read.For a book of this quality recapitulating such an outstanding career, the price is a bargain.November 30th. The recent death of Saul Leiter and the comments on his pioneering work in color caused me to revisit this book and especially the color plates. I've also been struggling with analogue color in my own photography. I realized that I was unfair in my assessment of Callahan's later work, which is better than I remembered. The pictures from Ireland are especially fine. I had thought the Morocco stuff weak, but I was wrong. It's just very different from the rest of his work.
