Some Time Ago, We Went To Asia And Took A Camera Along, And I Began To Do What I'd Done Even Years Ago Doing People. I Couldn't Get Interested In It. And I Did Hundreds Of Photographs Of Details Of The Monuments As Sculpture. - SearchQuotes

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Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.

Ben Shahn

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