Harry Callahan (photographer)

Harry Callahan ( born October 22, 1912 in Detroit, † March 15, 1999 in Atlanta ) was an American photographer who is considered one of the most innovative and influential people in the modern American photography.

Biography

Harry Callahan was born in 1912 in Detroit, Michigan, and studied from 1931 to 1933 Engineering at Michigan State College. In 1938, he began to photograph as an autodidact, where he was particularly impressed by works of Alfred Stieglitz and Minor White and inspired. In 1941 he became a member of the Association of Photographers Detroit Photo Guild and from 1944 to 1945 he worked in the photo lab of General Motors.

From 1946 to 1961 he was discovered by László Moholy -Nagy, who teaches photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago and began at that time to deal with the photograph of the Bauhaus and New Objectivity. In 1954 he participated in the exhibition in part subjective photography 2 by Otto Steinert, 1968 he had a major solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. From 1961 to 1973 he was director and later teacher of the photography department of the Rhode Iceland School of Design, 1977, he sat down to rest from there. Harry Callahan died 1999.

Work

Callahan Henry is regarded as one of the most innovative and influential photographers of the modern American photography. His oeuvre includes a wide range of subject matter of nude photography about landscapes to city scenes and other scenes that he has left behind in a number of different forms of processing.

Exhibitions

  • 2013: Harry Callahan - retrospective. House of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
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