This is an insightful reappraisal of the iconic work of two photographic masters - Edward Weston and Harry Callahan. This superbly illustrated volume explores the photographs of two master photographers, Harry Callahan and Edward Weston, through the relationships of vision and desire. While the well-known bodies of works have been understood as nudes or landscapes, this book looks beyond these categories, which here may be considered limitations, to propose a more ample and complex notion of erotic photography. He, She, It proposes a spectacular reading of the work of Callahan and Weston through the relationship of the body and nature, but also, photography and affection. Unlike most erotic photography that seeks to catalyse desire through the visual, in Callahan and Weston we find the extremely unique case of desire made image - the photographer portraying the person he loves.
This book compares the portrait photographs of two American masters, Harry Callahan (1912-1999) and Edward Weston (1886-1958), examining how their images combine desire and affection.
Harry Callahan's French archive records a year of plenitude and serenity in ProvenceIn 1956, when the photographer Harry Callahan was head of Chicago's Institute of Design, he received Graham Foundation...
Yet he cherished no photographs more than the images of his wife, Eleanor, which form an intimate visual diary of a lifestyle and a relationship. This is the definitive publication of Callahan's photographs of Eleanor.
An alphabetic listing of the major photographers in the collection incorporates information about research materials and makes Original Sources the most comprehensive guide to one of photography's unique repositories."--BOOK JACKET.
"Elemental Landscapes" accompanies an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art that concentrates exclusively on the landscape photographs of the late American photographer Harry Callahan. The natural landscape was a...
A revelatory new study of the twentieth-century master Harry Callahan, offering insights into his often experimental process and his contribution to the history of photography
At the Crossroads of American Photography examines the aesthetic and personal interrelationships of three photographers who helped define the course of American photography after Steiglitz: Frederick Sommer (1905-1999), Harry Callahan...
For Weegee and Brassai alike , the only refuge from the night , the only sanctuary , was in the bars and cafes . Weegee's Montmartre was the Bowery , and his Bal de Quatre Saisons was a dive called Sammy's . Like Brassai , Weegee went ...
... Pirkle Jones , John Collier , and Larry Sultan , constituted the core of the faculty through the 980s and 1990s . ... the performance video department , on to produce alumni including Karen Finley , Tony Labat , and Sammy Cucher .
In The Model Wife, Arthur Ollman explores the imagery and photographic history of nine twentieth-century photographers who portrayed their wives over a period of years.