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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."

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"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."

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"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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"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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"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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"Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited."
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"I didn't care where my works were published."
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"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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"It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material."
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"I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore."
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"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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"In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture."
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