I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my ow…

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.
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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.
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.
If you're going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A youngster told me recently that he was going to give himself a year to see if he has talent. … ▶
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 … ▶

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