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

~Ben Shahn

Topics: Became Found Inadequate Interested My Own Own Photography Sketching

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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

Topics: Along Asia Began Camera Details Did Doing Done Even Get Hundreds Interested Monuments People Photographs Sculpture Some Time Took Years Years Ago

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Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.

~Ben Shahn

Topics: Get Involved See Totally Whatever You

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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.

~Ben Shahn

Topics: Brought Department General Know Mural Photographic Posters Propaganda Skills Special Thing You

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An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

~Ben Shahn

Topics: Amateur Enable Him Himself Jobs Outside Paint Professional Someone Supports Which Who Whose Wife Works

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

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Topics: Around Crowded Now People Sewing Table Ten Twelve Used

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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.

~Ben Shahn

Topics: About Deal Degree Great Great Deal How Living Mean More Much Our Our People People Percentage Poverty Show Some Sort Talk Then Thing Today Very War You

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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.

~Ben Shahn

Topics: Angle Avoid Criticize Each Field Genuinely Horrible Just Look Man Never Other Returned Shots Tricks Us Very Were Work Would

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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.

~Ben Shahn

Topics: As Far As Depression Desire Far Get Go Had Know Middle Penny States Time United United States You

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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.

~Ben Shahn

Topics: About Area Around Come Country Down First Job Me Offered Revelation See Suggested Take Tell Trip Which Worked You

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Artist

Born: September 12th, 1898

Died: March 14th, 1969

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