We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that'…

Ben Shahn
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We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was that it was so ordinary. Nobody had ever done it before, deliberately. Now it's called documentary, which I suppose is all right ... We just took pictures that cried out to be taken. ✨ Ben Shahn (1972). Ben Shahn
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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none. ✨ Ben Shahn (1957). The Shape of Content, p.48, Harvard University Press
I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate. ✨ Ben Shahn.
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.
To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them. ✨ Ben Shahn (1957). The Shape of Content, p.6 … ▶
I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world. ✨ Ben Shahn (1972). Ben Shahn

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