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~ Ben Shahn Quote
I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.
~ Ben Shahn Quote
I didn't care where my works were published.
~ Ben Shahn Quote
I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.
~ Ben Shahn Quote
Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.
~ Ben Shahn Quote
Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.
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In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio.
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His every line of writing was art. And yet such art was inseparable from its life content
~ Ben Shahn Quote
In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.
~ Ben Shahn Quote
An amateur is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
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It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.
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I remember traveling around in Arkansas with Senator Robinson, and I told him what this little trick was. He felt very much part of it and had me take pictures of people unbeknownst to them.
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I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some drawing and did a lot of photography but I was not part of Stryker's outfit at all.
~ Ben Shahn Quote
So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around the country in the areas in which we worked to see what it's all about, and I tell you that was a revelation to me.
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Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.
~ Ben Shahn Quote