Harry Callahan
Harry Callahan
Harry Morey Callahanwas an influential twentieth century American photographer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth22 October 1912
CountryUnited States of America
Harry Callahan quotes about
photography adventure people
I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
photography shots
I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.
photography adventure men
Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.
photography adventure life-is
Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.
photography prayer
A picture is like a prayer.
photography mysterious i-can
I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.
photography technique mystery
The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.
photography thinking expression
I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.
photography believe people
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.
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.
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.