Harry Callahan - Photographs New York Friday, April 5, 2024 | Phillips

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  • “To Callahan, and to many others because of his achievements, experimental photography is not something to be dabbled in, but is a style of expression and a school of creativity.”
    —Minor White, 1958

    Harry Callahan’s body of work is the unique synthesis of two different photographic traditions: the straight photography of Ansel Adams, who Callahan saw lecture at the Detroit Camera Club before the war; and the highly experimental work of László Moholy-Nagy, who hired Callahan to teach at Chicago’s Institute of Design in 1946. The early multiple exposure offered here shows how even Callahan’s most experimental work is built upon the foundation of clearly-seen and masterfully photographed images.    

     

     

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    • Provenance

      Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Ltd., Chicago, 1994

FIGURE + FORM: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

347

Michigan (tree abstraction, multiple exposure)

circa 1943
Gelatin silver print.
3 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. (8.3 x 11.4 cm)
Initialed in pencil on the reverse of the Crescent board mount.

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$10,000 - 15,000 

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New York Auction 5 April 2024