No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

Women-the greatest natural resource in the world today.

Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.

The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

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.