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Ben Shahn quotes about photography

Lithuanian Artist September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969

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Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish. Ben Shahn
I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York. Ben Shahn
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
Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know. Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn quote: "I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control..."
I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography. Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn quote: "Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited."
Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited. Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn quote: "I became interested in photography when I found my own..."
I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate. Ben Shahn

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