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    Harry Callahan was a Michigan-born photographer known for his portraits of his wife Eleanor. He started his career working for Chrysler but became interested in photography after seeing a movie camera. Although self-taught, he went on to teach photography at prestigious schools. Callahan was inspired by Ansel Adams and focused on landscapes featuring small human figures, often his wife. A signature technique was "sandwiching", which combined two negatives to create shadowy overlapping images. Callahan's photography captured the essence of everyday life in cities like Chicago and on Cape Cod through both portraits and landscapes.

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    Harry Callahan was a Michigan-born photographer known for his portraits of his wife Eleanor. He started his career working for Chrysler but became interested in photography after seeing a movie camera. Although self-taught, he went on to teach photography at prestigious schools. Callahan was inspired by Ansel Adams and focused on landscapes featuring small human figures, often his wife. A signature technique was "sandwiching", which combined two negatives to create shadowy overlapping images. Callahan's photography captured the essence of everyday life in cities like Chicago and on Cape Cod through both portraits and landscapes.

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    Harry Callahan was a Michigan-born photographer known for his portraits of his wife Eleanor. He started his career working for Chrysler but became interested in photography after seeing a movie camera. Although self-taught, he went on to teach photography at prestigious schools. Callahan was inspired by Ansel Adams and focused on landscapes featuring small human figures, often his wife. A signature technique was "sandwiching", which combined two negatives to create shadowy overlapping images. Callahan's photography captured the essence of everyday life in cities like Chicago and on Cape Cod through both portraits and landscapes.

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    Harry Callahan

    Photo 204
    Chris Robertson

    Who is this guy?


    Harry Callahan was a Michigan born photographer.
    Date of Birth: October 22, 1912.
    Detroit,Michigan
    Attended public schools until attending Michigan
    State College (Engineering).
    Started working in the auto industry for Chrysler
    on 1933 (Age 21).
    Married Eleanor Knapp in 1933.

    Brief Example

    Cape Cod, 1974

    Early Life
    Born in the suburb of Royal Oak, just
    outside of Detroit.
    Parents were farmers who moved to the
    city in search for work.
    Completed three semesters of college
    before leaving to work for Chrysler.
    First saw a camera when his Dentist
    showed him a movie camera.

    Introduction to
    Photography
    Bought a Rolleicord still camera because
    he could not afford a movie camera.
    Began taking pictures as just a hobby.
    Joined the Chrysler Camera Club and the
    Detroit Photo Guild.
    Only attended a few workshops, no formal
    training.
    Inspired by Ansel Adams to use a Huge
    View camera that used 8x10 inch
    negatives.
    Left photo clubs because they were to

    Rolleicord Camera

    Career in Photography
    1944, Processing Assistant for General Motors
    Photographic Laboratories.
    Got to travel and meet photographers such as
    Alfred Stieglitz.
    Professor at the Institute of Design in Chicago,
    became head of his department.
    Moved to the Rhode Island School of Design to get
    a change in canvas.
    While in Rhode Island he started a photography
    program at the Rhode Island School of Design.

    Day in the Life


    Would wake up almost every morning and
    walk through his city and take numerous
    pictures.
    Spend his afternoons making proof prints
    of the best images he captured.
    Teach 2-3 classes in the early evening.
    Eleanor, Chicago. 1960

    His Style
    Attempted all types of Photography Outdoors,
    Indoors, Portraits, Nude etc.
    Favorite thing to photograph was his wife Eleanor,
    its been said that it would be impossible to
    imagine Callahans work without her.
    Did commercial photography to make ends meet.
    All this lead him to focus on a lot of landscapes
    with small figures often in them. The small figure
    the majority of the time being his wife Eleanor.

    Images with Eleanor

    Top left image: Eleanor, Chicago. 1949


    Top right image: Eleanor, Port Huron.
    1953
    Bottom left image: Eleanor and
    Barbara, Chicago

    Landscapes
    Chicago, Trees in Snow.
    1950

    Cape Cod. 1972

    Sandwiching

    Sandwiching is putting 2 negatives in the holder and


    exposing them together.

    Sandwiching
    Also known as negative sandwiching.
    Photo technique created by combining two
    negatives into the film carrier of the
    enlarger and printing them both together
    as one.
    Creates and an image where one
    photograph will appear in almost a shadow
    of the other.

    Providence,
    1966.
    Eleanor, 1947.
    Eleanor, Chicago.
    1952

    Grasses,
    1965

    And More Pics

    Chicago, 1949

    Atlanta, 1984

    Cape Cod,
    1972

    What I plan to Mimic

    Eleanor, Lake
    Michigan. 1952

    Eleanor, Indiana.
    1948

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