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Photography as a Way of Life: Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan
Three influential photographers are brought together in an exhibition about photography as artistic practice and a lifelong way of seeing.
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Through Sun., Feb. 7
Photography as a Way of Life: Minor White, Aaron Siskind & Harry Callahan, High Museum — Black-and-white prints, rare slides, and a batch of published and archival materials by three mid-20th century artists known for experimentation are being exhibited at the High for the next few months. In 1952, Minor White co-founded and edited the influential fine-art photography magazine Aperture as a way to highlight the work of pioneering photographers such as Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan. Siskind was inspired by abstract expressionists like Willem De Kooning, while Callahan admired the climactic work of Ansel Adams; Siskind and Callahan were close friends and teaching colleagues, though their styles are markedly different.
Work by the three artists’ students and contemporaries — Emmet Gowin, Roy DeCarava, Linda Connor, Arthur Siegel, Ming Smith, and John Baldessari, among others — is included in the exhibition. — Kevin C. Madigan
The High Museum of Art examines the creative dialogue among Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan, three pioneering photographers who treated the medium as personal exploration and artistic discovery.
Artists: Minor White; Aaron Siskind; Harry Callahan
Venue: High Museum of Art
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