I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.
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So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around the country in the areas in which we worked to see what it's all about, and I tell you that was a revelation to me.Ben Shahn
I felt the function of a photograph was to have it seen by as many people as possible and the newspaper is one of the best ways or the magazine.
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I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some drawing and did a lot of photography but I was not part of Stryker's outfit at all.
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It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.
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So, most of my pictures don't have any posed quality and this was a very helpful thing in the whole quality of my work, this angle finder.
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I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.
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