Harry Callahan was born on October 22, 1912 in Detroit, Michigan and died on March 15, 1999 in Atlanta, Georgia. He went to Michigan State University before he worked the Chrysler Motor Part Corporation in 1936. He joined the Chryslers camera club and shortly after he became member of Detroit's Photo Guild. He attended a speech give by Ansel Adams and after that is when he knew he wanted to do photography. He taught at a summer camp at Black Mountain College in 1951, he left in 1961 to go to the Rhode Island School of Design until 1973. He then retired from teaching four years later. He photographed his with and daughter, nature, light studies, pedestrians, telephone lines, architecture, landscapes in Cape Cod, and pictures from his travels. He shot pictures in color and black and white. He wrote Harry Callahan photographs in 1967, Visions and Images, American Photographers on Photography in 1981, and Callahan in New England in 1994.
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http://www.pacemacgill.com/biography.php?artist=Harry%20Callahan
http://www.artnet.com/artists/harry-callahan/biography
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