In the “French archives”, Harry Callahan pursues his minimalist approach to landscape

The images made by Harry Callahan in Aix-en-Provence makes up one of the rare cases where a master of American street photography in the 1950s is confronted with the decor of a small European village with its narrow streets and modest boutiques, keeping a certain distance from the inhabitants of the city. From the French Archives, he was able to create a cold and distanced poetry without any nostalgia. As for the nature studies, some were taken in the garden of the house where he was staying on the way to Sainte-Victoire Mountain, dear to Cézanne.