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The photographs of Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn
by Ben Shahn
Published 2008 by Library of Congress, in association with GILES in Washington, D.C .
Shahn, Ben, -- 1898-1969,
Documentary photography -- United States,
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945 -- Pictorial works
Statement introduction by Timothy Egan.
Genre Pictorial works
Series Fields of vision
LC Classifications TR820.5 .S483 2008
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Fields of Vision: The Photographs of Ben Shahn features an introduction to his work by Timothy Egan and 50 striking images. Trained as an artist and designer, and best known as a painter and illustrator, Shahn's primary interest was in people rather than landscapes, "the authentic faces of 4/5(6).
The Photographs of Ben Shahn book. Read 4 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Part of a completely new photography series, featuring /5(4).
Edited with an introduction by Margaret R. Weiss. 82 black and white photographs. 8vo pp. 76 n.n. Rilegato tela, sovracoperta (cloth, dust jacket) Sovracoperta leggermente sciupata ai margini con piccoli strappi riparati (Some chipping and nicks around top and bottom of dust jacket) Molto Buono (Very Good) Ben Shahn, Photographer is the first book devoted exclusively to Shahn's 4/5(1).
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Title Photographs of Ben Shahn, Russell Lee and Marion Post Wolcott Summary Timothy Egan, a Pulitzer Prize winner and writer for The New York Times, has written the introduction to "The Photographs of Ben Shahn," one of three Library of Congress.
"We just took pictures that cried out to be taken."—Ben Shahn "No matter where he pointed his camera, Shahn could not help but find a telling detail that went beneath the surface. Sent to document the brutality of the Depression, he came home with that, plus its.
Chapter 1 | Documenting America: Table of Contents Cotton Pickers Photographer: Ben Shahn Pulaski County, Arkansas, October Resettlement Administration, Lot Ben Shahn made two important contributions to the newly formed Historical Section in First, of course, were the photographs he himself added to the agency's file.
The portion dating from is small. Ben Shahn (Septem – Ma ) was a Lithuanian -born American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content.
Shahn was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire, to Jewish parents Joshua Hessel and Gittel Known for: Painting, illustration, graphic art. From Delta cotton fields to rough-looking Ozark homesteads, photographers Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein and others captured the everyday struggles of some.
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Ben Shahn's American Scene Photographs, Rediscovered FSA photographs by a major American artist. The paintings, murals, and graphics of Ben Shahn (–) have made him one of the most heralded American artists of the twentieth century, but during the s he was also among the nation's premier photographers.
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Ben Shahn was a Lithuanian-born American artist and member of the Social Realist movement. View Ben Shahn's 1, artworks on artnet.
Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available prints and multiples, works on paper, and paintings for sale and learn about the ality: American. Ben Shahn was a Lithuanian-born American artist. While most of the photographers hired by the FSA were photo-focused, Shahn's background was as a painter and lithographer.
During the Great Depression, Shahn was commissioned by the WPA to create murals and worked with the RA to design posters and pamphlets, but he was also hired as a. Named one of the "World's Ten Best Artists" by then-popular Look magazine in and renowned for his anguished, searingly bold imagery, artist and activist Ben Shahn protested against social injustice and honored ordinary people in lithographs, paintings, photographs, and public murals.
For Shahn, art was a powerful tool for sociopolitical commentary and for urging Nationality: American. The approximatelyphotographs in the Library of Congress' collection from the Farm Security Administration (FSA), later the Office of War Information (OWI), provide a unique view of American life during the Great Depression and Second World War.
Initially conceived to document government loans to farmers and th. Inthe whole family immigrated to New York and, like many fellow Eastern European Jews, settled in Brooklyn.
As an adult, Shahn called himself "the most American of all American painters" because he "came to America and its culture and was sort of swallowing it by the cupful."[2] Apart from his love of baseball and chewing gum, Shahn's Americanism lies in his.
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Read the book on paper - it is quite a powerful experience%(). Some of the photographs from this project have become emblematic of this period. or to support or encourage one because it is beneficial," he wrote in a book.BEN SHAHN: And someone suggested that he might look at our photographs.
I don't think he was very excited about the idea. When we sent him our photographs - we sent down a big portfolio - he said, "I'm abandoning my text, I'm just using your photographs and I'll write a .
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