Harry Callahan

mounted, signed by the photographer in ink and with a 'Photography Collection of the Polaroid Corporation' label, with typed credit and title and accession information, in ink, on the reverse, 1949, printed no later than 1958 (Emerging Bodies, p. 64, this print; MoMA, p. 16; Eleanor, p. 39; Cox, pl. 35; Callahan, Siskind, Sommer: At the Crossroads of American Photography, p. 16)

Acquired from the photographer in December 1958 for the Library Collection

This print, on single-weight paper with a semi-glossy surface, and mounted to cream-colored board, is in generally excellent condition. In raking light, a small mounting bubble is visible near the left edge. There is slight age-darkening on the mount at the periphery, particularly on the reverse.
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