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Ben Shahn

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality."

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Amber Hurdle

"I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket."

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Amber Hurdle

"Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer."

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Amber Hurdle

"I've got a great collection of photography."

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Amber Hurdle

"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks."

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Ben Shahn
"I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know."

Art

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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
"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."

Time

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

Love

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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."

Art

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

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Ben Shahn
"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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Ben Shahn
"When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today."

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Ben Shahn
"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."

Time

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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."

Decision-Making

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