Harry Callahan

Known for: photography education at the Institute of Design and RISD; portraits of his wife Eleanor

Harry Callahan taught at the Institute of Design in Chicago beginning in 1946, where he worked alongside László Moholy-Nagy, and later chaired the photography program at the Rhode Island School of Design, shaping photographic education in the United States for decades. His own work encompassed multiple exposures, extreme close-ups of grasses and weeds, street photography, and an extended portrait project centered on his wife Eleanor. He received the National Endowment for the Arts' first survey grant in photography in 1972.