HARRY CALLAHAN (1912–1999) Eleanor, California 1947

Gelatin silver print, contact print on 20,3 x 12,2 cm (8 x 4.8 in) paper, printed 1960s 11,7 x 8,6 cm (4.6 x 3.4 in) Signed by the photographer with a stylus in the black contact margin LITERATURE Aperture Masters of Photography, Harry Callahan, New York 1976, cover; Nicholas Callaway / Anne Kennedy (ed.), Eleanor, Carmel 1984, p.7; Sarah Greenough (ed.), Harry Callahan, National Gallery of Art Washington 1996, p. 81; John Szarkowski (foreword), Harry Callahan. The Photographer at Work, Center for Creative Photography Tucson 2006, fig. 5; Emmet Gowin (ed.), Eleanor, High Museum of Art Atlanta 2007, pl. 10. PROVENANCE The contact print was acquired by the current owner, a Japanese private collector, at an American auction in the late 1960s