The photographic eye of Ben Shahn / edited by Davis Pratt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1975.Description: xiii, 147 pages : black and white photographs and illustrations ; 25 x 27 cmISBN:
  • 0674666151
  • 9780674666153
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 779/.9/9739170924
LOC classification:
  • TR 820.5 .S48 1975
Contents:
Foreword / by Archibald MacLeish --
Preface / Davis Pratt --
Acknowledgements -- [Photographs].
Summary: This text contains over a hundred black and white photographs taken by Ben Shahn as a self portrait of his life. Summary: "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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BOOKS 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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