Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan was an American photographer whose practice moved across street photography, portraiture, landscape, architecture, and the domestic interior with a formal rigour that placed him among the most significant figures in postwar American photography. Working in Chicago and later Providence, Callahan developed a body of work in which the same subjects — the street, the city, the natural world, and above all Eleanor, his wife — were returned to repeatedly, each time with a different formal approach.

Publications collected here document Callahan's practice and its institutional reception, including exhibition catalogues, monographs, and printed matter through which his photographs entered museum collections and private hands.

  • Original 1967 Harry Callahan exhibition catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Cream softcover with a black-and-white photograph of a standing female figure seen from behind, torso bare, seated on a stool before a window with venetian blinds, interior domestic space visible around her. 'HARRY CALLAHAN' in sans-serif type below the image. Interior page from 1967 Harry Callahan, Museum of Modern Art. Black-and-white photograph of a single dried plant stem with a small spherical seed head at its tip, two additional bare stems beside it, all set against a plain white ground in high-contrast graphic isolation

    Harry Callahan — Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1967

    Harry Callahan — Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1967