Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago

Creator

American Photographer · 1912–1999

Harry Callahan was self-taught as a photographer. Inspired by a workshop and lecture given by Ansel Adams, he began to photograph in Detroit. In the early 1940s, he took time off from his job at General Motors to concentrate on his photography. Around that time he went to New York, where he met Berenice Abbott, Paul Strand, and Lisette Model. Callahan began teaching photography at the Institute of