Harry Callahan

by Cox, Julian

• ISBN13: 9783865214645
• ISBN10: 3865214649
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

This is the definitive publication of Harry Callahans photographs of his wife, Eleanor. For almost two decades from the early 1940s to the early 1960s Eleanor was a primary focus of Callahans work, resulting in many of his most acclaimed and influential photographs. This publication features the finest and rarest examples of his Eleanor images. This in-depth presentation of a single subject over many years provides a new understanding of both Eleanor as a subject and Callahans ongoing exploration of the creative potential of photography. Over the years Callahan photographed his wife in countless ways: nude and clothed, indoors and outdoors, in public parks and city streets, at the beach, in a tent, in the woods, among sand dunes, and in the privacy of the family home. She is shown as a youthful model recorded through pregnancy and young motherhood, and in numerous poses with their daughter, Barbara. These photographs function like an intimate visual diary of a lifestyle and a relationship. They are seldom portraits in the traditional sense of revealing a subjects personality. More than studies of his wife, the Eleanor photographs are central to Callahans life long exploration of photography as a creative medium and the seemingly infinite ways camera and light sensitive materials can depict a single subject.

Author Biography

Julian Cox is Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

Table of Contents

A Sublime Tenderness: The Portraits of Eleanor Callahan	p. 11
A Loving Endeavor: The Eleanor Photographs	p. 15
Plates	p. 41
A Conversation with Eleanor Callahan	p. 142
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