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Salvesen, Britt.

Harry Callahan : the photographer at work / Britt Salvesen ; foreword by John Szarkowski with a contribution by Amy Rule.

Tucson : Center for Creative Photography ; New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, ©2006.

192 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), portraits ; 31 cm

"This book focuses on Harry Callahan (1912-1999) through his work - both his day-to-day photographic explorations and his resulting sixty-year career as an artist. Drawing upon the rich contents of the Harry Callahan Archive at the Center for Creative Photography, the authors look at how Callahan expressed his visual ideas through deliberate and improvisational processes, and how such processes might be revealed in archival materials such as negatives, transparencies, proof prints, and contact sheets. This close investigation of Callahan's individual and experimental approach to materials in turn leads to a larger consideration of his relationship to seemingly contradictory strains in American visual culture of the twentieth century." "Reproducing a host of previously unpublished images and documents, this volume juxtaposes select artifacts - such as contact sheets and negatives - with final images to explicate Callahan's photographic achievement."--Jacket.

Callahan, Harry M. -- Exhibitions.

Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions.

Exhibition catalogs.

University of Arizona. Center for Creative Photography.

Art Institute of Chicago.

"This catalogue was produced in conjunction with the exhibition Harry Callahan: the photographer at work, organized by the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona ... presented at Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, January 27-- May 7, 2006; the Art Institute of Chicago, June 24--September 24, 2006"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-192).

Preface and acknowledgments / Douglas R. Nickel. -- Foreword / John Szarkowski. -- Harry Callahan: the photographer at work / Britt Salvesen. -- Plates. -- The archives of Harry Callahan / Amy Rule.

Contributor biographical information

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