Hear Harry Callahan discussing his initial days in photography and the first time seeing an Ansel Adams print

HARRY CALLAHAN: I think I've mainly been naive all my life; I never knew much about what was going on. Maybe if I knew too much, I would be too influenced, or maybe if I knew the history of art, you know, I might have been stifled by it. When I first started photography I--I learned technique, to a certain extent, from camera clubs, but it was never a beautiful quality like you--like--well, like an Ansel Adams print, which I finally saw for the first time--the first beautiful print that I'd ever seen. That was photography to me. And it was just like total freedom. I felt that I could--I was an artist, and I hadn't even made a picture yet.

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