HARRY CALLAHAN (1912–1999)

Eleanor, Chicago, 1947

Details

HARRY CALLAHAN (1912–1999)
Eleanor, Chicago, 1947
gelatin silver contact print, printed probably 1950s
signed in pencil (verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
image: 4 1/2 x 2 7/8 in. (11.4 x 7.3 cm.)
sheet: 5 x 4 in. (12.7 x 10.1 cm.)

Provenance

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1980s.

Literature

John Szarkowski, Callahan, Aperture, Inc., New York, 1976, p. 61.
Anne Kennedy and Nicholas Callaway, Eleanor: Harry Callahan, The Friends of Photography, Carmel, 1984, p. 16.
Sarah Greenough, Harry Callahan, Bulfinch Press, Boston, 1996, p. 80.
Julian Cox, Henry Callahan: Eleanor, Steidl, Göttingen, 2007, pl. 16, p. 58.
Dirk Luckow (ed.) et al., Harry Callahan, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2013, p. 72.

Exhibited

Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, An American Portrait: Photographs from the Collection of Diann and Thomas Mann, April 1–June 12, 1994, no. 116.

Lot Essay

She was innocent and I was innocent. I just try to photograph what I like. I thought she was beautiful. I intuitively photographed her. All my photography is innocent.
--Harry Callahan

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