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Harry Callahan 1912–1999

Chicago

1950 / printed later
gelatin silver contact print 8 h × 10 w in (20 × 25 cm)
estimate: $7,000–9,000
result: $5,418
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Signed to lower right ‘Harry Callahan’.
provenance: Private Collection
literature: Harry Callahan, Greenough, pg. 73 Harry Callahan, The Museum of Modern Art, ed., pg. 65, back cover Callahan, Szarkowski, pg. 63

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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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