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Harry Callahan

Photographer Harry Callahan (1912-99) was invited by L�szl� Moholy-Nagy in 1946 to join the faculty of Chicago's Institute of Design. The school's experimental philosophy helped Callahan develop a photographic vocabulary of formal abstraction and experimentation with light which he applied to the subjects he photographed for decades: buildings, nature and street scenes, as well as his daughter and his wife.