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Synopsis

"Of all the notable photographers of the twentieth century, surely Harry Callahan is the coolest."--John Szarkowski, former director of photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Harry Callahan (1912-1999) is regarded as one of the most innovative and influential twentieth-century American photographers. By amplifying the abstract tendencies of New Vision in a lyrical mode evincing great sensitivity, he was able to overcome the prevailing realist aesthetic in American photography. This catalog presents the entire spectrum of Callahan's multifaceted photographic oeuvre, the product of tireless and prolific creative labors over the course of nearly sixty years.

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Harry Callahan(October 22, 1912, in Detroit March 15, 1999, in Atlanta) was an influential twentieth century American photographer. Since his first one-person show in 1947, Callahan’s work has been the subject of over 60 solo and group exhibitions, including retrospectives organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. He left behind 100,000 negatives and over 10,000 proof prints.

Dirk Luckow, born in 1958 in Hamburg, has been the general director of the museum Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany, since October 2009.

Sabine Schnakenberg, is chief curator of the FC Gundlach Collection at the Haus der Photographie at museum Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany.

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"Of all the notable photographers of the twentieth century, surely Harry Callahan is the coolest."--John Szarkowski, former director of photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Harry Callahan (1912-1999) is regarded as one of the most innovative and influential twentieth-century American photographers. By amplifying the abstract tendencies of New Vision in a lyrical mode evincing great sensitivity, he was able to overcome the prevailing realist aesthetic in American photography. This catalog presents the entire spectrum of Callahan's multifaceted photographic oeuvre, the product of tireless and prolific creative labors over the course of nearly sixty years.

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