Ben Shahn

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. ↗

— Ben Shahn

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

— Ben Shahn

#country #mine #picture #point #south

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

— Ben Shahn

#influence #material #measure #pretty #visual

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited. ↗

— Ben Shahn

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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

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

— Ben Shahn

#bureaucrat #died #i #just #me

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

#depression #desire #far #get #go

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

— Ben Shahn

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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

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