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Todd Webb Harry Callahan 1942 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Harry Callahan Light Abstraction 1947 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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Harry Callahan Untitled (Plaster Figure by Hugo Weber) 1948 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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Harry Callahan Lake Michigan 1949 gelatin silver print Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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Harry Callahan Card Shop, Chicago 1949 dye transfer print Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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Harry Callahan Drawing in Space with a Flashlight ca. 1950 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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Harry Callahan Untitled 1950 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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Harry Callahan Chicago ca. 1951 dye transfer print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Harry Callahan Ragsdale Beauty 1951 dye transfer print Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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Harry Callahan Aix-en-Provence 1957 gelatin silver print Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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Harry Callahan Providence 1961 dye transfer print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Harry Callahan Siena 1968 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Harry Callahan Rome 1968 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Harry Callahan Cape Cod 1972 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Harry Callahan Ireland 1979 dye transfer print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Harry Callahan Cape Cod 1980 dye transfer print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Harry Callahan Providence 1984 dye imbibition print Princeton University Art Museum |
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Harry Callahan Providence 1984 dye imbibition print Princeton University Art Museum |
from Metamorphoses
While thus to unknown pow'rs Cephisa pray'd,
Victorious Pan o'ertook the fainting maid.
Around her waste his eager arms he throws,
With love and joy his throbbing bosom glows;
When, wonderful to tell, her form receives
A verdant cov'ring of expanded leaves;
Then shooting downward trembling to the ground
A fibrous root her slender ancles bound;
Strange to herself as yet aghast she stands,
And to high Heav'n she rears her spotless hands;
These while she spread them still in spires extend,
Till in small leaves her taper fingers end;
Her voice she tries; but utt'rance is deny'd,
The smother'd sounds in hollow murmurs dy'd;
At length, quite chang'd, the God with wonder view'd
A beauteous plant arising where she stood;
This from his touch with human sense inspir'd,
Indignant shrinking, of itself retir'd;
Yet Pan attends it with a lover's cares,
And fost'ring aid with tender hand prepares;
The new form'd plant reluctant seems to yield,
And lives the grace and glory of the field.
– Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), translated by John Gay (before 1732)