Saturday, August 16, 2025

Harry Callahan

Todd Webb
Harry Callahan
1942
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC


Harry Callahan
Light Abstraction
1947
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art,
Washington DC

Harry Callahan
Untitled
(Plaster Figure by Hugo Weber)
1948
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Harry Callahan
Lake Michigan
1949
gelatin silver print
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Harry Callahan
Card Shop, Chicago
1949
dye transfer print
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Harry Callahan
Drawing in Space with a Flashlight
ca. 1950
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Harry Callahan
Untitled
1950
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Harry Callahan
Chicago
ca. 1951
dye transfer print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Harry Callahan
Ragsdale Beauty
1951
dye transfer print
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Harry Callahan
Aix-en-Provence
1957
gelatin silver print
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Harry Callahan
Providence
1961
dye transfer print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Harry Callahan
Siena
1968
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Harry Callahan
Rome
1968
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Harry Callahan
Cape Cod
1972
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Harry Callahan
Ireland
1979
dye transfer print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Harry Callahan
Cape Cod
1980
dye transfer print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Harry Callahan
Providence
1984
dye imbibition print
Princeton University Art Museum

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)