Trees, Chicago, Harry Callahan

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Harry Callahan, Trees, Chicago
Harry Callahan, Trees, Chicago
Harry Callahan
Trees, Chicago
1950
Harry Callahan
1912–1999
Trees, Chicago, 1950
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 19.1 x 24.1 cm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 19 in
Credit line: Museum purchase
Accession number: 1970.0057
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Archive Label 2003: Harry Callahan was important to the development of straight photography as a personally expressive medium. Eight years after taking up photography Callahan was teaching it at the Institute of Design in Chicago. He subsequently taught at the Rhode Island School of Design. Callahan’s typical subjects ranged from cityscapes, landscapes, and pedestrians to his wife, Eleanor, the subject of a life-long series of photographs. In Trees, Chicago, Callahan has characteristically made a strikingly composed image without manipulation. The bleak and absolutely uncluttered natural background created by a fresh blanket of snow emphasizes the simple repeated tree forms. A barely discernable horizon line on this flat picture surface provides only the slightest challenge to the otherwise vertical elements of the composition.