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Ben Shahn

Lithuanian Artist

Born: Sep 12, 1898

Died: Mar 14, 1969

Own People Photography Time Work You

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

Photography Own My Own Became Interested Inadequate Sketching Found

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten. Ben Shahn

People Sewing Table Ten Crowded Around Used Twelve Now

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. Ben Shahn

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

Knowledge Photography Terribly Limited Now

In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture. Ben Shahn

You Picture Country Mine Point Camera South Wherever

I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on. Ben Shahn

Depression You People Administration Impact About Strongly Know Felt Accomplish Very Efforts Trying Social Them Helping Whole

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

Time Photography Enough Enough Time Draw Drawing Outfit Some Take Part Along Felt Camera Lot Did Wanted Things

I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time. Ben Shahn

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