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10 July 2024
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Harry Callahan 1912–1999

Wells Street, Chicago

1949 / printed later
gelatin silver print 8 h × 9⅞ w in (20 × 25 cm)
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $2,016
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Signed to lower right ‘Harry Callahan’.
literature: Harry Callahan, Greenough, pg. 47 Callahan, Szarkowski, pg. 81

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I have always lived in simple places. There is nothing extraordinary about these places, but somehow I find them beautiful. In the Midwest, the highest hill is about 150 feet. It isn't spectacular like the western United States and, even though I have been out there, I find beauty in the landscape in the Midwest. I feel that, instead of photographing a sand dune, I can photograph a footprint in the sand; instead of a mountain, a dense group of trees.

Harry Callahan

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