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Wanting to see more makes you grow as a person and growing makes you want to share more of the life around you. In each exploration or concern for the subject, I continue in the area for a great length of time, sometimes a couple of years. Working this way has been the result of my doing the photo series or groups. Many things I can't return to and many things I return to come out better.\" - Harry Callahan","date":{"text":"21/09/2007-28/06/2008","earliest":"2007-09-21","latest":"2008-06-28"}},{"text":"Gallery 100, ‘History of photography’, 2011-2012, label text : \r\n\r\nHarry Callahan (1912-99)\r\n‘Eleanor and Barbara’, ‘Lake Michigan’, ‘Eleanor and\r\nBarbara, Chicago’, ‘Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago’\r\n1952-3\r\n\r\nThe tiny figures in these images are the photographer’s\r\nwife and child. 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