Ben Shahn's New York
Subtitle: The Photography of Modern Times
Publisher: Harvard Univ Art Museums
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780300083156
Subjects: Individual photographers; Photographs: collections; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Photography; Photo Techniques; History; Individual Photographer; Photoessays & Documentaries; Photography / Individual Photographer; 1898-1969; Documentary photography; Exhibitions; In art; New York; New York (N.Y.); New York (State); Shahn, Ben,
Description: "Ben Shahn, painter, muralist, and graphic artist, was also a talented photographer who made documentary street photographs in New York City in the early 1930s. This book is the first to focus on his compelling New York images, showing how he used a camera to comment on many social issues of his day.".

"The book considers the immediate social history of Shahn's New York photographs and analyzes how his leftist politics and his interest in news photographs and film affected his photographic aesthetic. The authors assert the importance of analyzing Shahn's paintings and photographs together, explaining why the connections between the two have been ignored until now.

The book reproduces not only Shahn's New York photographs but also his related paintings, prints, and drawings, and an appendix presents documents that speak to the impact of his photographic work."--BOOK JACKET.