HARRY CALLAHAN INTERVIEW

Harry Morey Callahan (October 22, 1912 – March 15, 1999) was an American photographer and educator.^[1][2] He taught at both the Institute of Design in Chicago and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Mr. Callahan has won numerious awards and has exhibited around the world. Callahan's first solo exhibition was at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1951. He had a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1976/1977. Callahan was a recipient of the Edward MacDowell Medal and the National Medal of Arts. He represented the United States in the Venice Biennale in 1978.

Callahan repeatedly returned to the same subjects throughout his prolific six-decade career — his wife Eleanor and daughter Barbara, and the urban environment, and nature — continually developing new methods to embrace and depict them.

Let's listen to this great photographer.