Harry Callahan: The Street
June 11, 2016 - October 30, 2016
Harry Callahan
Providence, 1967
silver gelatin print
Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of The Rossy Family Foundation
© The Estate of Harry Callahan, Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Harry Callahan (1912–1999) was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. In 2013, the Vancouver Art Gallery received the extraordinary gift of almost 600 Callahan photographs from the Larry and Cookie Rossy Family Foundation. Harry Callahan: The Street features 140 of these black and white and colour images, which Callahan made in the streets of Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Cairo, Mexico, Portugal and Wales, covering a key aspect of his work that has until now been largely overlooked by historians and critics.
Organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Grant Arnold, Audain Curator of British Columbia Art
Harry Callahan
Untitled, n.d.
silver gelatin print
Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of The Rossy Family Foundation
© The Estate of Harry Callahan, Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Shauna K. Woolley
Miles, Maureen and Larry Lunn
Publication
HARRY CALLAHAN: THE STREET
Co-published by the Vancouver Art Gallery and Black Dog Publishing, 2016
Hardcover, 140 pages
Illustrations: 100 colour
Editor: Grant Arnold
Contributors: Grant Arnold, John Pultz
Celebrating this extraordinary gift and addressing an area of Callahan’s activity that is not as widely known as other aspects of his production, Harry Callahan: The Street features more than 100 photographs made of the urban environment in Detroit, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Cairo, Mexico and Morocco. The publication spans the montages produced in Detroit in the early 1940s up to the pictures he made along Peachtree Street in Atlanta from the mid-1980s until just a few years before his death in 1999.