Title: Callahan
Author: Harry Callahan
Publisher: Aperture,1977
Text by John Szarkowski, photographs by Harry Callahan; 203 pages, 166 black and
white plates.
This book was published on the occasion of the 1976 Harry Callahan retrospective at
the Museum of Modern Art. Though he often experimented with varying techniques,
including multiple exposures, intentional blurring, large, and small format fi lm, his
keen eye and precise printing skills have made Callahan one of the most important
photographers of the 20th century. His subjects ranged from the mid-western
streetscapes of Detroit, to his seemingly inexhaustible portrait series of his wife. The
famous photography curator, John Szarkowski, off ers a generous treatment of the best
of Callahan’s large oeuvre, which presents the reader with compelling and masterful
photographs from the middle of the 20th century, an era when the black and white
aesthetic may have been at its fi nest.
