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Ben Shahn

"I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate."

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Donna Grant

"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"

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Donna Grant

"Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow."

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Donna Grant

"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."

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Donna Grant

"She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes."

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Donna Grant

"Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation."

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Donna Grant

"Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true."

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Donna Grant

"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection."

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Donna Grant

"A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?"

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Donna Grant

"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."

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Donna Grant

"At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way."

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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."

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Ben Shahn
"I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know."

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Ben Shahn
"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."

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Ben Shahn
"Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited."

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Ben Shahn
"I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate."

Photography

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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."

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Ben Shahn
"I didn't care where my works were published."

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Ben Shahn
"I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography."

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Ben Shahn
"It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material."

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Ben Shahn
"I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore."

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