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 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.
photography thinking alive
I think I came alive when I started photography.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
thinking artist want
I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.
photography adventure life-is
Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.
men knows limitation
A man has to know his limitations.
writing average differences
The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively—intuitively—the camera can write poetry.
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.