Eleanor

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Eleanor

Creator

Harry Callahan

American Photographer · 1912–1999

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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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Date
1949
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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Getty Museum
Object ID
924b3d1c-90ed-4519-811a-a5c0186ca907

The artist's wife Eleanor is silhouetted against a stark white backdrop. She is seen from the waist up, nude, with her arms folded above her head.

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