I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his surroundings. and in this exploration of the realm of places, people and things, contrasts and relationships, Callahan is no respecter of conventional technical formula or code. His delicate sense of pattern is an integral part of his photography and not a thing by itself.

A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.