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It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

- Ben Shahn
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I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on.

When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would avoid all tricks, angle shots were just horrible to us.

I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.

Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.

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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It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.