• 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
  • nterior page from 1967 Harry Callahan, Museum of Modern Art. Black-and-white street photograph, Chicago. A woman in a light-coloured quilted coat and skirt strides toward the camera in a busy street, shot from a low angle. A clock on a building reads approximately 12:05. Street lamps, shop fronts, and other pedestrians fill the background.
  • Interior page from 1967 Harry Callahan, Museum of Modern Art. Black-and-white multiple-exposure photograph of Chicago rooftops and chimneys, the image doubled and overlaid so that two rows of dark pitched roofs, windows, and telegraph wires intersect diagonally across a pale grey sky, creating a graphic zigzag of architectural form.
  • Interior page from 1967 Harry Callahan, Museum of Modern Art. Caption reads 'CHICAGO 1950'. Black-and-white close-up photograph of a young woman's face in three-quarter profile, hair swept back, wearing a drop earring, expression absorbed and slightly downward, shot in a crowd.
  • Interior page from 1967 Harry Callahan, Museum of Modern Art. Caption reads 'CHICAGO 1956'. Black-and-white photograph of a nude female figure seen from behind, seated on a stool before a window with venetian blinds casting vertical light, a bed and lamp visible in the domestic interior around her.
  • Interior page from 1967 Harry Callahan, Museum of Modern Art. Caption reads 'ELEANOR 1951'. Black-and-white photograph of a small illuminated window set within a dense mass of dark bare branches filling the entire frame, a female silhouette visible inside the window with arms slightly extended.
  • Original 1967 Harry Callahan exhibition catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Cream softcover with 'HARRY CALLAHAN' in large sans-serif type above a black-and-white photograph of six bare winter trees standing in snow against a pale grey sky, their dark trunks and branching silhouettes filling the frame.
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Harry Callahan — Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1967

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

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Published by MoMA in 1967, this catalogue accompanies one of the institution's important presentations of Harry Callahan's photography. The sequence moves between street photography, portraiture, architecture, landscape, and the recurring presence of Eleanor, Callahan's wife and one of the most enduring subjects in twentieth-century photography.

A museum publication from a moment when photography was consolidating its position within the modern art institution. The catalogue functions as both record and distribution device: photographs translated into printed form and circulated beyond the exhibition itself. Trees, streets, bodies, windows, shadows, and domestic interiors move from wall to page.

Retained exhibition material. A printed support through which Callahan's photographs continued their circulation after the exhibition ended.

Format: Offset-printed softcover
Illustrations: Black-and-white photographic reproductions throughout
Dimensions: 19.5 × 22 cm
Pages: 84
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1967
Condition: Good vintage condition. Toning to covers, surface rubbing, edge wear, small creases, and handling marks.

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