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This is the definitive publication of Harry Callahan's photographs of his wife, Eleanor. For almost two decades from the early 1940s to the early 1960s Eleanor was a primary focus of Callahan's work, resulting in many of his most acclaimed and influential photographs. This publication features the finest and rarest examples of his Eleanor images. This in-depth presentation of a single subject over many years provides a new understanding of both Eleanor as a subject and Callahan's ongoing exploration of the creative potential of photography. Over the years Callahan photographed his wife in countless ways: nude and clothed, indoors and outdoors, in public parks and city streets, at the beach, in a tent, in the woods, among sand dunes, and in the privacy of the family home. She is shown as a youthful model recorded through pregnancy and young motherhood, and in numerous poses with their daughter, Barbara. These photographs function like an intimate visual diary of a lifestyle and a relationship. They are seldom portraits in the traditional sense of revealing a subject's personality. More than studies of his wife, the Eleanor photographs are central to Callahan's life long exploration of photography as a creative medium and the seemingly infinite ways camera and light sensitive materials can depict a single subject. Price UK £34.00 US $65.00 EC €50.00 Harry Callahan Harry Callahan (1912–1999) was one of the great innovators of twentieth century American photography. He began his career by joining the camera club at Chrysler Motors in 1938. Inspired by Ansel Adams, whom he met in 1941, Callahan improved his technique and swiftly developed an artistic voice. In 1946, he was hired by László Moholy-Nagy to teach photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago. In 1961, he moved to Providence, Rhode Island and taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, retiring in 1977. He established his reputation with black and white materials, but also fully explored color photography, especially from the late 1960s onwards. Callahan's work was widely published and exhibited during his lifetime, and was the subject of a major retrospective at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, in 1996. * 160 pages, 90 tritone plates * 25.4 cm x 34 cm * Clothbound hardcover with dustjacket * STEIDL Photography International * ISBN: 978-3-86521-464-5 * Publication date: May 2007