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This seems to be one of the more popular photos that harry Callahan has taken. I don't know if personally I like it but I can also see why people would be drawn to it. It is a photo of a natural woman. Not dressed up, no makeup done, and not even shaven. It has a draw to it that people like. There could be many interpretations of this photo, but probably a popular one is that a woman can be beautiful even if she doesn't do anything. Which is always a good thing to hear from people.
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As I look through photos that he has taken, a lot of them seem to be of women. This photo seems to be successful because it is just so simple. There isn't distracting things in the photo that make it hard to concentrate on the main part of the photo; the woman. It is a woman swimming, also being herself in a neutral setting. This photo, like a lot of his photos can be seen in so many different ways and I think that is what people like about them.
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To be honest, it was pretty hard finding photos that he took that did involve fully clothed people. So I found one that was dark so you couldn't see anything. I think it is cool that a child is in the picture so more families could relate to the photo. However he could get away with more back then than you could do now. If you take a photo like this now it wouldn't be okay. But for that time period, I think this photo, like the rest could be interpreted in a lot of ways which is what people tend to like. He seems to be a very successful photographer in that way, where people can take it in a lot of ways.
Harry Callahan was born on October 22, 1912. He never went to school for photography or actually finished college. He went to a speaking event where he heard Ansel Adams, that seemed to change how he looked at photography. It made him take it more seriously. He taught himself the basics of photography. He jumped around a lot in photography. He'd take a lot of photos of one subject, then he would stop for a while and go do something else. Sometimes he'd go back to those original subjects, and sometimes he wouldn't. If he would return to it, he would usually have a change in perspective then when he first started. This often helped him take a lot better of photos. In his personal life, he had met his wife, Eleanor Knapp, on a blind date. They got married three years later and had a daughter named Barbara. He died in 1999, his wife died at age 95 in 2012.