Two Masters

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Barbara Morgan: Classic Images

Harry Callahan: Color Work

We are pleased to present these two great masters of the field of photography. The Barbara Morgan prints come from her estate, and many are vintage. The Harry Callahan work (on the page one of the show) represents a fine selection from the color transparencies he made for years.



Harry Callahan (1912-1999) is widely recognized as one of the more influential photographers and teachers of the last half of the 20th Century. He was born and raised in Detroit and began teaching himself the medium in the late 1930s. In 1941, he was greatly inspired hearing Ansel Adams speak at the Detroit Photo League.

In 1944, he began working at the General Motors Photographic Laboratory and within two years he started teaching at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He was there until 1961 when he went to the Rhode Island School of Design to start the photography department. He retired in 1977.

Over the years, he concentrated on a wide range of subject matter, including his wife, landscapes, seascapes and street scenes. He has been widely published and exhibited, including a one person show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976.

In the late 1970s, he began focusing on color. He had made color photographs for decades, but they only existed as Kodachrome transparencies. He began to produce dye transfer prints and held his first color show in 1978 at the Light Gallery in New York. The prints we are exhibiting are from that time period.

Acme Sign Shop, Providence, 1977

Skyscraper with Person and Flagpole, New York, 1977

Skyscrapers New York, 1978

Eleanor in Hugo Weber's Studio, Chicago, 1950	Street Scene: Woman in Red, Providence, 1962	Couple Walking Down Street, Venice, 1957	Ragsdale Beauty Shop/ Poodle Cut, Detroit, 1951
Yellow House and Blue House with Green Foliage, Providence, 1977	Multiple Exposure "Revolving House," Providence, 1971	House Facade, Providence, 1977	Alley with Green Moss, Venice, 1978
Brown Grass, Horseneck Beach, Massachusetts, c. 1971	Blued Tree with Green Foliage, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1978	Water Reflections, Bass Rocks, Massachusetts, 1978	Wide Lux Sand Picture, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, c. 1977
Barbara in Florence, Italy, 1957	Desert and Blue Sky, Egypt, 1978	Store Window and Mannequin with Lingerie, Providence, 1962	Multiple Exposure: Nude on Building, Providence, 1971

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