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Ben Shahn

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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


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


— Ben Shahn


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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


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I didn't care where my works were published.


— Ben Shahn


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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.


— Ben Shahn


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I remember traveling around in Arkansas with Senator Robinson, and I told him what this little trick was. He felt very much part of it and had me take pictures of people unbeknownst to them.


— Ben Shahn


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


— Ben Shahn


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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


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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.


— Ben Shahn


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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.


— Ben Shahn


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Shahn’s examination of the status quo inspired his creative process. Similarly Shahn’s New Deal art for the FSA and Resettlement Agency exposed American living and working conditions. Shahn defended his choice to employ pictorial realities rather than abstract forms.

He is best known for his works of social realism his left-wing political views and his series of lectures publiBen Shahnd as The Shape of Content.

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