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Description: 'WELLS STREET, CHICAGO'

measurements note
6 1/2 by 7 in. (16.5 by 17.8 cm.)

flush-mounted to illustration board, signed by the photographer in pencil on the reverse, a Museum of Modern Art Diogenes with a Camera II exhibition label and a Museum Study Collection label on the reverse, matted, framed, 1949, printed no later than 1952

PROVENANCE

Extended loan to The Museum of Modern Art from the photographer, from the 1950s on; gift of the photographer, 1992

Sotheby's New York, Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art, 22 October 2002, Sale 7851, Lot 7

EXHIBITED

Detroit, The Museum of Modern Art circulating exhibition, Diogenes with a Camera II, 1952

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Photographs by Harry Callahan and Robert Frank, January - April 1962

LITERATURE

Other prints of this image:

Callahan (The Museum of Modern Art, 1967), p. 32

Sarah Greenough, Harry Callahan (Boston, 2001), fig. 8

Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company (The Museum of Modern Art, 2000), pl. 286

NOTE

This print was shown in the Diogenes with a Camera exhibition series organized by Edward Steichen at The Museum of Modern Art. The series was named for the Greek philosopher dedicated to the search for truth. Each Diogenes exhibition was devoted to a small group of photographers. Along with Callahan, the photographers Esther Bubley, Eliot Porter, W. Eugene Smith, Frederick Sommer, Edward Weston, and Robert Frank were featured.