CALLAHAN HARRY (1912 1999) Eleanor and Barbara Lake Michigan

Sale 2374 - Lot 104

Price Realized: $ 6,500

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Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000

CALLAHAN, HARRY (1912-1999)
"Eleanor and Barbara, Lake Michigan." Silver contact print, 7 5/8x9 3/8 inches (19.4x23.8 cm.), with Callahan's signature, with a stylus, on recto. 1953; printed 1970s

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From the Collection of Louise Lohr Malefyt.

Harry Callahan, a self-taught photographer, was born and raised in Detroit. In 1938 he acquired his first camera and joined the camera club at Chrysler Motors, where he was employed. Soon after, Callahan was inspired by a lecture delivered by Ansel Adams and began to seriously address photography as an art form, transitioning to a medium-format 4x5-inch camera.

In 1946 Callahan joined the faculty at the Institute of Design, in Chicago, which was founded on the ideas and philosophy of the modernist master Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, who had directed the Bauhaus school in Germany. Callahan subsequently taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, which had one of the best photography programs in the country in the 1970s.

Callahan's pictures focused on the poetic details of his everyday life. He expressed his personal relationship with his wife and daughter, finding new ways to visually render intimacy. His nudes and portraits often have an abstract quality, without sacrificing feeling and emotion.