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Ben Shahn

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

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

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

Influence

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Ben Shahn
"It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal."

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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
"I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that."

Life

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

Care

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Ben Shahn
"The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time."

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Ben Shahn
"When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would avoid all tricks, angle shots were just horrible to us."

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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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"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."

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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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Aberjhani

"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."

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Aberjhani

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

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Aberjhani

"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."

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Aberjhani

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

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Aberjhani

"In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated."

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Aberjhani

"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."

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Aberjhani

"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."

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Aberjhani

"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."

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Aberjhani

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

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Aberjhani

"I've been working with photography for many years."

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