Harry Callahan

mounted, signed 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, 1953, printed no later than 1958

Acquired from the photographer in December 1958 for the Library Collection

Other prints of this image:

Photographs: Harry Callahan (Santa Barbara: El Mochuelo Gallery, 1964), pl. 5 

Harry Callahan (The Museum of Modern Art, 1967), p. 27

Eleanor (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1984), p. 49

Harry Callahan, Aperture Masters of Photography (1999), p. 2

Britt Salvesen, Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work (Center for Creative Photography and Yale University, 2006), pl. 93

Julian Cox, Eleanor (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2007), pl. 61

This early print, on paper with a surface sheen, is in generally excellent condition. There is an extremely tiny loss of emulsion at the tip of the lower right corner. When examined in raking light, there is a small, soft linear indentation that does not break the emulsion in the lower right quadrant. The mount has been taped to an overmat on the reverse with 4 pieces of cloth tape. On the reverse, there is light soiling.
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