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Title: Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work
ISBN: 0300113323
Author:
Britt Salvesen
Publicate Date: 2005-12-15
Publish: 2005-12-15
List Price: $55.00
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Hardcover
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1: Really nice photographer
Great book of Harry Callahan's photographs. I needed to buy this book to use in a paper i wrote about him for my history of photography class, and it came quickly to me, of which i was hoping for because i needed to do my essay soon. Perfect stuff
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2: Wonderful biography of a gifted artist
This is a wonderful book on the creative life of one of the 20th century's most creative photographic artists. It is so much more than a "mere" biography.
What sets this biography (which a generous sampling of Callahan's work) apart from other books in this genre, is its elegant focus on the creative aspects of photography. In discussing Callahan's dedication to constant experimentation, choice of subject matter, his visual approaches to a particular shot, selection of themes and improvisations, sequential ordering, and the all important print process, the book provides a rare invaluable resource to the inner reflections of an artist at work (and play). Callahan's lifelong body of work is testament to the fact that an artist need not travel to the ends of the earth to find beauty; beauty is not just in the eyes of the beholder, but in the dedication and loving attention to craft and creative experimentation in one's backyard.
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3: more of the same
Ever since Harry Callahan died in 1999 I have been waiting for a major evaluation of his undeniably historic contribution to twentieth century photography. "Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work." is another of several tantalizing introductions to Callahan's oeuvre that fails to dig deep enough and wide enough to make much of an impact on those passingly familiar with his body of work. There are only a very few photographs that have not been published before.
I want a catalogue raisonne or as close to it as the holders of his photographs can aspire to. I want a significant analysis of the imagery that goes far beyond the oft repeated "magical, mysterious, intuitive" pieties of most current writing including the book under review. I want a writer with a vivid imagination to sit down with all the grass photographs, all the Eleanor photographs, all the Cape Cod photographs and say something that allows the viewer to appreciate the psychological depth of Callahan's imagery.
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