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A black and white photograph of cars and shop fronts.

The black and white photograph shows a number of cars on a street in front of several shop fronts with several pedestrians in front of the shops. The photograph gives the objects in the photograph a ghost image of the cars and shop front. There is a solid looking car and then a ghost image that is slightly off register. The same applies to the shop fronts.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.222
People
Harry Callahan, American (Detroit, Michigan 1912 - 1999)
Title
Detroit
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1943
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/362184

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 27.9 × 35.2 cm (11 × 13 7/8 in.)
image: 22.4 × 30.6 cm (8 13/16 × 12 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., in graphite: Harry Callahan
  • inscription: On verso, in graphite: 5-43

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Richard L. Menschel, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2018

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Richard and Ronay Menschel
Copyright
© Estate of Harry Callahan, Courtesy of Pace Gallery
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.222
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1110 Mid-Century Abstraction II (Post-Painterly Abstraction), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/04/2021 - 04/18/2022

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