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Aix-en-Provence

Harry Callahan ( 1957 )

Collection item 2004.013.0001
  • Period Twentieth-Century
  • Materials Gelatin silver print
  • Object Number 2004.013.0001
  • Dimensions 11 x 14 in.; 27.94 x 35.56 cm
  • Credit Line Gift of Fern M. Schad, in memory of Tennyson Schad, 2004

A year before this photograph was taken Callahan received a $10,000 Graham Foundation Award for Advanced studies in the Fine Arts, at the time the largest grant ever given to a photographer. Callahan used his fellowship money to move with his family to Aix-en-Provence, France. There, he created many landscapes, including this photograph, as well as a series of double exposures that incorporated his wife, Eleanor. He explained: “Everything was new, the language, what I saw. I went to museums and got a different sense of time and everything changed…I just know somehow or another Europe had a tremendous influence on me.”