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Ben Shahn Quotes

- Artist | September 12, 1898 - March 14, 1969

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.

Moment Decision Eye Photography You

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.

Work Time Job Wish Photography You

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

Knowledge Photography Now Limited

It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.

Influence Measure Hard Pretty Visual

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.

Great Book Learn Logic I Can Go

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

Picture Camera You Country Wherever

In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio.

Time Job Harvest Salary Payroll He

I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know.

Work Great Influence Impossible You

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.

Work Art New York College Doing New

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.

Life People Action Doing Buildings

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

Love Myself Look Still Anymore

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.

People Me Remember Pictures Him He

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