Source

Harry Callahan, 86, Photographer of the Poetry of the Ordinary

Kimmelman, Michael The New York Times 1999 Tier 3 Unverified Accessed 2026-04-24 View source ↗

Citation

Kimmelman, Michael. “Harry Callahan, 86, Photographer of the Poetry of the Ordinary.” The New York Times, March 17, 1999. Obituary. (Exact section/page of the late edition not re-verified in this seed entry.)

Relevance

Named-author obituary of record for Harry Callahan (1912–1999), whose print appears at plate #9 of The Family of Man (Prologue). Source for the birth and death years used in pher-harry-callahan.

Key excerpts / pages

  • Birth: October 22, 1912, Detroit, Michigan.
  • Death: March 15, 1999, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Career summary notes his teaching at the Institute of Design in Chicago (1946 onward) and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Notes

  • Complementary institutional reference: Harry Callahan papers and prints held by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Center for Creative Photography.
  • Perspective: journalistic / biographical.
  • Not fetchable anywhere (NYT paywall; no Wayback Machine snapshot found via archive.org API). Marked verified: false per issue #9 procedure. Per CREDIBILITY.md, Wikipedia is not a valid citation endpoint. The Art Institute of Chicago and CCP hold Callahan archive material (Tier-1 candidates) but NEITHER was fetched this round. Biographical dates in Key excerpts are held on the pre-existing NYT citation only.
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