Photograph or Moving Image by ForeignPhotographer/Artist
Inventory Number
82-PHF-091
Fine, delicate lines form a Y-shape on a white sheet of paper. And yet, while this at first looks like a drawing, it is in fact a photograph. The gelatin silver printing technique used here is one of the techniques of black and white photography. The title is Weed against the Sky. If you look closely at the image, you can tell that the two dots at the tips of the Y are like buds. Every morning, Harry Callahan used to take walks around his neighborhood with his camera. Unexpected discoveries made in the course of ordinary life were an important theme and motif in his work. At the same time, his photographs also attracted attention for their experimental techniques, such as extreme close-ups and bold contrasts.
(OSAWA Sayoko)
Fine, delicate lines form a Y-shape on a white sheet of paper. And yet, while this at first looks like a drawing, it is in fact a photograph. The gelatin silver printing technique used here is one of the techniques of black and white photography. The title is Weed against the Sky. If you look closely at the image, you can tell that the two dots at the tips of the Y are like buds. Every morning, Harry Callahan used to take walks around his neighborhood with his camera. Unexpected discoveries made in the course of ordinary life were an important theme and motif in his work. At the same time, his photographs also attracted attention for their experimental techniques, such as extreme close-ups and bold contrasts.
(OSAWA Sayoko)