Chicago
- Title:
- Chicago
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Landscape and the Environment
- Creator:
- Callahan, Harry
- Creation Date:
- ca. 1953
- ID Number:
- 2017.045.001
- File Name:
- 2017.045.001.jpg
- Work Type:
- Photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- cities
Chicago
settlements
urban infrastructure - Measurement:
- 20.3 x 25.1 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Looking across a field from a slight elevation at an adult and a child in the near distance, with trees beyond and mid-rise buildings large in the background under puffy clouds. The figures are standing with the adult directly behind the child, both looking at the camera, and they look quite small in comparison with the mown expanse of field, or the largeness of the buildings significantly further away. There are several horizontal lines in the image, just above the figures, a line of grass is discolored, further back the line of trees is unbroken, and beyond that the buildings are all in the same plane and mostly large segmented rectangles, though some have pointier tops.
- Notes:
- printed later
Matted gelatin silver print.
One of about fifty prints by Callahan held at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum. - Cite As:
- Harry Callahan (American, 1912–1999), Chicago, ca. 1953; printed later. Gelatin silver print, 8 × 9 7/8 inches (20.3 × 25.1 cm). Gift of Ronay Menschel, Class of 1964, and Richard Menschel, 2017.045.001.
- Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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