The photographic eye of Ben Shahn / edited by Davis Pratt.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1975.Description: xiii, 147 pages : black and white photographs and illustrations ; 25 x 27 cmISBN:- 0674666151
- 9780674666153
- 779/.9/9739170924
- TR 820.5 .S48 1975
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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BOOKS | Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks | TR 820.5 .S48 1975 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan Damaged | Minor tearing at the beginning of the text. | NPML21080026 |
This text is primaily composed of black and white photographs.
Foreword / by Archibald MacLeish --
Preface / Davis Pratt --
Acknowledgements -- [Photographs].
In 1969 Mrs. Bernarda B. Shahn presented to the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University some three thousand photographs taken by her husband, a selection of which are included here.
This text contains over a hundred black and white photographs taken by Ben Shahn as a self portrait of his life.
"Ben Shahn was little known ass a photographer, even to a public familiar with his paintings and graphic work, until the 1969 exhibition Ben Shahn as Photographer, at the Fogg Art Museum. The exhibition attempted to place Shahn, a sensitive photographer, in proper perspective and to reflect his consumate skill in the medium. Shahn was more concerned with content in a photograph than with technical qualities; the latter he felt, had been greatly overemphasized....I am only interested in photography as a means of documentation and to take notes for my future paintings." -- from preface
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