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Page 2 of 2Ben Shahn
September 12, 1898 - March 14, 1969
Nationality: Lithuanian
Category: Artist
Subcategory: Lithuanian Artist
|  Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited. | | 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. | | 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. | | In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture. | | 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. | | 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. | | I didn't care where my works were published. |
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