SIGNED Harry Callahan New Color Photographs 1978 1987 HC DJ

Description: Harry Callahan New Color Photographs 1978-1987 An Exhibition From The Hallmark Photographic Collection Harry Callahan SIGNED by Harry Callahan Albuquerque, N.M. and Kansas City, Mo. University of New Mexico and Hallmark Cards. 1988. First edition. Signed by the photographer Harry Callahan as Harry on the title page in ink. Inscribed to Janet. Silver stamped gray cloth. Very good in good plus dust jacket. Introduction by Keith F. Davis. 4to 11"-13" tall. 72 color plates with 3 color and 13 black and white figure illustrations. 131 pages. A great copy of this excellent and beautifully reproduced collection of color photography by Harry Callahan published on the occasion of the exhibition "Harry Callahan. New Color" organized by and from the holdings of the Hallmark Photographic Collection, a project of Hallmark Cards, Inc. Boards show light wear with sunning along the edges. A small indentation along the bottom edge near the right hand corner front board. Silver lettering still bright. DJ has a crease on the bottom front with a 1/8 inch tear, the crease is 2 inches across. On the DJ back there is a water stain at the top edge, 1 1/2 inches x 1/3 inch and a long crease which is the width of the back cover. DJ is not price clipped. Laminate beginning to peel away in a few places. On the book itself there is a tiny dark spot on the very edges of a few pages in the front which is only noticeable if you look down on the top of the pages with the book closed. Internally sound with a solid binding. Clean and crisp photographs with tanning to page edges. Editorial Reviews From Library Journal This excellent collection of Callahan's photographs accompanies a national tour of his work. Curator Greenough's decision to arrange the images chronologically works well to illustrate both the themes central to the photographer's aesthetic and his development as an artist. From early experiments using multiple exposures and light painting to the most recent color cityscapes, Callahan has sought to explore photography's potential. He often returned again and again to the same subject in a quest for yet a new way to "see" it via the camera. Now in his eighties, Callahan is a 20th-century master of American photography who places the highest value on the process of self-realization through image-making rather than on any individual photograph or series of photographs. His life's work stands as convincing testimony to this ideal. This retrospective will be a fine addition to public and academic photography collections. Kathy J. Anderson, Indiana Univ., Bloomington Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist Photographer Callahan has been at the top of the list for half a century (he had his first one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1948), and because his pictures have been so individual, so elegant, so purely seen, they are as fresh today as ever. The plain spoken Callahan decided early that photography could be the medium for "some set of values that I am trying to discover and establish as being my life." He has never focused on public themes, however, but on familiar landscape and one particular woman, his wife, Eleanor. Inspired as a young man by the spectacular images of Ansel Adams, Callahan nevertheless did not require sublime landscape as material. His visual poetry has come more often from a few blades of grass or a barren city street. A pure photographer, concerned with what he calls "the standard photographic problems" --focus, contrast, selection, motion, and multiple exposure--Callahan has maintained remarkable consistency of vision as well as a most individual voice. This book, cataloging a major retrospective exhibition, is the broadest overview of the art and the man. Even collections with much Callahan material (there is no dearth--he is well documented) should add this summative, definitive volume. Gretchen Garner --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Scarce in cloth. Signed by the photographer. A wonderful book.

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