"HAROLD ALLEN: PHOTOGRAPHER AND TEACHER". Collectif. Editions The Art Institute of Chicago. 1984. Grand in-8, dos droit, couverture souple photo. 56 pages. Textes en anglais de Deborah Stein Frumkin et de Harold Allen, illustré de 33 reproductions photographiques, noir & blanc, hors texte, par Harold Allen. Catalogue réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme au Art Institute of Chicago du 15 Décembre 1984 au 17 Février 1985.

 

"Ever since I first took up with Architectural Photography almost thirty years ago my life, previously sordid and empty, has been a dream of beauty, for I have been

engaged in a labor of love. Labor, in this case, must be taken literally, for the equipment of my calling is only barely transportable on foot, and other inconveniences, equally insupportable, would long ago have made a better man of Job. Sensing these and other perils, friends warned me against the match, pointing out that I would be wasting my youthful enthusiasm in an unworthy alliance. Whereas (they said) the highest possible aim in photography was to exhibit 16x20 sepia portraits of middle-aged men dressed up as clowns, low-key pictures of Old men With beards, high-key pictures of revealingly draped young girls shouldering art nouveau vases, incredibly Sharp blowups of flash head-portraits of cats, red-filter shots of milk-weeds and birch trees, or dramatically lighted but circumspect nudes, I was tragically and unnecessarily forsaking all these dependably glamorous models to squander my vast and virile talents on one insipid subject suitable only for post cards. So they said, but it was too late. Cupid's arrow had struck…" Extrait de "My Passionate Interest in Architectural Photography" par Harold Allen.

 

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