I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.

  • -- Ben Shahn 本·沙恩

当我发现自己的素描不够好时,我对摄影产生了兴趣。

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Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.

哦,我的天哪,你能从网上买到什么关于头顶摄影。训练有素的类人猿只需花费相对适中的代价,用拳头敲一下鼠标,就能知道这个世界上发生了什么可怕的事情。

I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.

我对商业艺术中通常被认为是最糟糕的方面感兴趣。我认为这是一种张力,在似乎如此刻板和陈词滥调和艺术真的不可能这样的事实之间。

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

也许在某个领域,照片只能告诉我们我们亲眼所见,除此之外别无其他,但在另一个领域,它向我们证明,我们的眼睛不允许我们看到多少东西。

But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

但我对政治不感兴趣。我失去兴趣的微秒它停止了情感,当某件事成为一个政治运动。我感兴趣的是情感。