Harry Callahan: New Color - 1990

Harry Callahan: New Color - Photographs, 1978-1987With text by Keith F. Davis University of New Mexico Press, 1990. Hardcover, oblong format, grey cloth w title embossed in silver. Illustrated with 72 color plates, and 13 black & white figures in the text. With an introductory essay, bibliography etc. In excellent, as new condition without the jacket. "At the age of seventy-five, Callahan is one of our most prolific photographers. This unique catalogue is produced for a traveling exhibition surveying Callahan's color work since 1978. Included are photographs made in Egypt, Ireland, Morocco, Portugal, Mexico, Japan, Spain, and the American cities of Providence, New York, and Atlanta. Most of the work is published here for the first time." About Harry Callahan: One of the foremost American photographers of the 20th century, Harry Callahan began his photographic career as an untrained amateur while working for the Chrysler Motor Parts Corporation in 1938.Following a workshop by Ansel Adams at the Detroit Photo Guild in 1941 and a meeting with Alfred Stieglitz in 1942, Callahan decided to completely devote his energies to the medium. His talent in the field was recognized in 1946 by László Moholy-Nagy, who invited Callahan to teach photography at Chicago's Institute of Design (formerly the New Bauhaus). After a 15-year tenure in Chicago, Callahan moved to Providence in 1961 to begin and chair the Photography Department at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he taught until his retirement in 1977.