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Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

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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.

– Ben Shahn

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.

– Ben Shahn

Ben Shahn

Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.

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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.

– Ben Shahn

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.

– Ben Shahn

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

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

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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.

– Ben Shahn

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.

– Ben Shahn

Ben Shahn

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

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Ben Shahn

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

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