Harry Callahan
Harry Callahan
Harry Morey Callahanwas an influential twentieth century American photographer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth22 October 1912
CountryUnited States of America
photography people matter
It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can't always see.
photography art real
In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.
beautiful writing unique
I just don't know what makes a picture, really - the thing that makes it is something unique, as far as I can understand. Just like one guy can write a sentence and it's beautiful and another one can write it and it's dead. What the difference is, I don't know.
morning sky people
My project could be only to photograph as I felt and desired, to regulate a pleasant form of living, to get up in the morning-free, to feel the trees, the grass, the water, sky or buildings, people-everything that affects us; and to photograph that which I saw and have always felt.
photography strong believe
I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.
being-different sake photograph
The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.
photography art real
You only do exercises in art school. That's not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don't know what you are! But that's what you have to search for.
photography talking done
Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.
photography thinking alive
I think I came alive when I started photography.
baseball art be-good
I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.
want done method
It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.
long people shots
Nothing wrong with people getting shot, as long as it's the right people getting shot.
mind legends
You're a legend in your own mind.
opinion
Opinions are like assholes, everbody's got one.