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 ← Previous Page · 1 | 2 · Next Page → TAPE 1, SIDE B ROBERT BROWN: . . . you needed that. HARRY M. CALLAHAN: Yeah. ROBERT BROWN: The documentary experience he had? HARRY M. CALLAHAN: Yeah. Not that he wanted to do it anymore but he could teach it. He didn’t really want to come to Chicago at all. ROBERT BROWN: He didn’t? Well, he was pretty involved with the upsurge of abstract art and everything in Chicago, wasn’t he? HA…  Eleanor, Chicago, 1953 Interview with Harry M. Callahan, Conducted by Robert Brown in Providence, RI, February 13, 1975 The following oral history transcript is the result of a tape-recorded interview with Harry M. Callahan on February 13, 1975. The interview took place in Providence, RI, and was conducted by Robert Brown for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. The quality of this recording is uneven due to mechanical diffic…  …ficant quotations. Each new explanation seems to qualify the previous one, and each encounters new obstacles — very real obstacles, for many were placed there by Frank. Reading The Americans becomes a confrontation with Robert Frank, but it is as if he recedes, indifferently, at each approach; reading The Americans is like being in a maze where you are confronted at every turn with new passages. I’ve charted a few of them: I’ll …  By George Cotkin, Professor, Postwar United States Intellectual and Cultural History, California Polytechnic State University Few analysts have captured the sadness, tensions, ironies and possibilities of 1950s American culture and society with the depth and insight of Robert Frank. Frank’s accomplishment is rendered all the more impressive since it was done without words in his volume of photographs, The Americans (1959). The tremendou… ROBERT FRANK: “The Photographer in the Beat-Hipster Idiom – Robert Frank’s The Americans” | ||||||||||||||
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