Best known for his black and white work Harry Callahan was one of the first artists to really turn my head in terms of what a photograph could say. His design and composition awareness is legendary. Just gaze at the tension he creates via the gutter and telephone pole in a rare color image below. One inch to the left or right and the composition would fall into utter banality but Callahan knows the secret sauce to making an empty street sing.
Harry Callahan Retrospective at the House of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
March 22 − June 23, 2013
