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Harry Morey Callahan

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Harry Morey Callahan 1912-99, American photographer, b. Detroit. Self-taught, he began taking pictures (1938) as a hobby and, inspired by the work of Ansel Adams , began to produce professional-quality photographs in the 1940s. His mature work is said to mingle the precision of Americans like Adams with the experimentalism of Europeans like Lázló Moholy-Nagy . From his first efforts, Callahan portrayed certain typical subjects drawn from his own daily life experience. His black-and-white city streetscapes and rural landscapes combine the commonplace with the starkly abstract,... Read more
Harry (Morey) Callahan
...department at the Rhode Island School of Design (1961–76). In 1980 two collections of his works were published, Water's Edge and Harry Callahan: Color, 1945–1980 . Harry (Morey) Callahan Harry (Morey) Callahan Harry (Morey) Callahan Read more

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