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Callahan, Harry
(1912-1999)Provincetown Beach, Cape Cod

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Provincetown Beach, Cape Cod. 1972. Vintage gelatin silver print. 15,3 x 20 cm (20,4 x 25,2 cm). Signed in pencil in lower right margin below the image as well as titled and signed in pencil on the verso.

Harry Callahan’s Cape Cod photographs exemplify his modernist approach to light, space, and form, capturing the vastness of the coastal landscape with a quiet, meditative simplicity. These images, often featuring expansive beaches, delicate horizon lines, and solitary human figures, reflect his lifelong fascination with minimalism and the interplay between nature and human presence. While his earlier work explored abstraction, multiple exposures, and urban geometry, his Cape Cod series embraces a more serene, observational style, emphasizing negative space and tonal subtlety. Prints of this work are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Whitney Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, The Getty Museum, the Museum of Fine Art Boston, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. – Corners slightly bumped, otherwise in near excellent condition.

Lit.: John Szarkowski. Harry Callahan. New York, 1977. ill. p. 186.
Harry Callahan. Harry Callahan: Water’s Edge. New York, 1980. ill. plate 1.
Sarah Greenough. Harry Callahan. Boston, 2001. ill. p. 150.
Britt Salvesen and John Szarkowski. Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work. New Haven, 2006. ill. p. 6.