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Alley, Chicago
Creator
Harry CallahanAmerican Photographer · 1912–1999
All works by this person →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
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- negative 1948; print later
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 7de3d76d-8beb-47be-83ed-b7f5c21b9370
Fire escapes, pedestrians, and an illuminated patch of sidewalk overlap in a dizzying composition.
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