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...WOULD DISPUTE THAT Harry Callahan has a reputation. He's a venerated name in postwar photography. What he lacks is a legend, the personal drama that turns a mere photographer into a cultural celebrity. Diane Arbus had her demons. Robert Frank has his melancholy. Richard Avedon has his glamour, so much of it that Hollywood turned his life into Funny Face. Callahan taught art school in Chicago and Providence, Rhode Island. Not much of a role there for Fred Astaire...
...fate that, at 83, Callahan is known almost entirely by his work. But it is work of sufficient power and mystery to have opened up some new lines of feeling in 20th century photography, above all a kind of dry-eyed romanticism, subdued but haunting. In his matter-of-fact pictures of his naked wife or in his radiant seascapes, the world is both plain and pregnant with hidden meaning. Everything is seen through the filter of his yearning for understandings that are always just out of reach. The Callahan retrospective that continues through May 19 at the National Gallery...
...Callahan started to take pictures regularly in 1938, when he was a shipping clerk at Chrysler in Detroit with an amateur's interest in cameras. A brief workshop with Ansel Adams, who passed through town in 1941, confirmed photography not just as his profession but in some sense as his calling. Callahan decided he was an artist, and it turned out he was right. Within seven years he had made some of his most enduring pictures, held the first of a long line of exhibitions and saw his work on the walls of the Museum of Modern...
...into the most irresistible role that photography offers: a walker in the city, a camera-equipped descendant of the quick-witted literary strollers that the French called flaneurs. Looking out for the knotty surprises the street has in store, he was like Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris or Harry Callahan in Chicago. What was different for DeCarava was that most of his streets were in Harlem, which made him a roving eye in a part of town that the rest of the world didn't see much of. In the retrospective of his work that runs through...
...tape has become more popular, Koernke has been speaking continuously. He has allied himself at various times with movement firebrand Linda Thompson and the Militia of Montana, one of the most aggressive purveyors of the militia concept. Nine months ago, G. Michael Callahan, an Arizona coin and precious-metals dealer, began sponsoring The Intelligence Report five days a week on short-wave radio. Koernke has made two popular sequels to his video. And all that was before Oklahoma City...