Harry Callahan

mounted, signed by the photographer in ink and with the 'Photography Collection of the Polaroid Corporation' label, with typed credit and title and accession information in ink, on the reverse, 1948, printed no later than 1958

Acquired from the photographer in December 1958 for the Library Collection

The Polaroid Book, (Köln, 2008), p. 224 (this print)

Other prints of this image:

Harry Callahan (Aperture, 1999), p. 27

Britt Salvesen, Harry Callahan: Photographer at Work (Center for Creative Photography and Yale University, 2006), fig. 4

Sarah Greenough, Harry Callahan (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1996), p. 66

Katherine Ware, Elemental Landscapes: Photographs by Harry Callahan  (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), cover and fig. 16

Harry Callahan: Nature (Gottingen, 2007), cover

Britt Salvesen and Keith F. Davis, Callahan, Siskind, Sommer: At the Crossroads of American Photography (Santa Fe, 2009), pl. 3

This print, on double-weight paper with a semi-glossy surface and mounted to thick off-white board, is in generally excellent condition. There is a faint area of graphite at the right edge, likely a result of the transfer of a penciled line on the reverse of the mat. There is light soiling on the reverse of the mount.
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