Devon Moore Curtin on Flickr.
Wild Goat in Donegal, Ireland
Polaroid sx 70 with a flash bar. thrilling moment here for me.
img125 on Flickr.
Eleanor Callahan, Harry’s Muse
One of the greatest muses in photo history, Eleanor Callahan, died this week, at the age of ninety-five. Harry Callahan photographed her for more than fifty of the sixty-three years of their marriage. From intimate nudes to double exposures of her ghostly silhouette projected onto the woods, her image acted as an anchor in Callahan’s often abstracted vision. From the beginning, Harry spoke of his work as an extension of his life; in a grant proposal he wrote that he would use the money “to photograph as I felt and desired; to regulate a pleasant form of living; to get up in the morning—free, to feel the trees, the grass, the water, sky or buildings, people—everything that affects us; and to photograph that which I saw and have always felt.” We don’t know if he got the grant, but his innumerable photos of Eleanor are a testament to his success.
- On our Photo Booth blog, Suzanne Shaheen on Eleanor and Harry Callahan. For more of Harry’s photographs of Eleanor: http://nyr.kr/xfF3S4
Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty….
Grouchy, antagonistic, and brilliant, according to those who knew him, Marvin Israel was a relatively unknown man of great cultural power, not least in the world of photography. As art director for Harper’s Bazaar in the sixties, Israel published the work of Richard Avedon and Walker Evans alongside that of less established photographers such as Bill Brandt and Lee Friedlander.
In a one-night event on December 15th, Aperture Foundation will be screening the documentary “Who Is Marvin Israel?” along with a slide show and talk by Diane Arbus. Click through for a selection of Israel’s magazine, book, and personal work: http://nyr.kr/rCZerA
square skyFINAL on Flickr.
