How Long to Read Ben Shahn: 400 FSA Photographs

How Long Does it Take to Read Ben Shahn: 400 FSA Photographs?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 30 minutes to read Ben Shahn: 400 FSA Photographs by Marc Rochkind

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Description

Ben Shahn is best known as a graphic artist and painter, but in his thirties he was a photographer for the US Farm Security Administration (FSA), along with Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, and others. This book contains 400 of his most compelling FSA photographs, along with the original captions from the Library of Congress.From the author's note in the book:The Library of Congress has about 1600 Ben Shahn FSA photographs. I chose the 400 for this book based on two criteria: (1) the availability of high-quality scans on the LoC website, and (2) compelling pictures of people (see quote at the top of the next page). TIFF files were downloaded using software written by me, processed in Adobe Lightroom, and formed into a book by another application written by me called PhotoMag (available for free on my website).I have a collection of thousands of FSA and OWI photographs, by Dorothea Lange, Esther Bubley, Andreas Feininger, Arthur Rothstein, John Collier, and others, in addition to Ben Shahn, and I've set them up for viewing as a long-running slideshow on a wall-mounted "photo frame." As I watched the show over the last few weeks, it became apparent that the best photographs of people were by Ben Shahn, not the more famous (as a photographer) Dorothea Lange. So I'm publishing this book to help Shahn become better known. (I previously published a book of 500 Dorothea Lange photographs.) Shahn had a "casual attitude about matters of photographic technique" (see next page), but he knew how to choose his subjects, where to point the camera, and when to press the shutter. To him, "content was more important than form or technique."All of my books are available on Amazon. To find them, just type "Marc Rochkind" into the search box. Or, go to basepath.com/booklist.

How long is Ben Shahn: 400 FSA Photographs?

Ben Shahn: 400 FSA Photographs by Marc Rochkind is 206 pages long, and a total of 52,736 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 64% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Ben Shahn: 400 FSA Photographs Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 48 minutes to read Ben Shahn: 400 FSA Photographs aloud.

What Reading Level is Ben Shahn: 400 FSA Photographs?

Ben Shahn: 400 FSA Photographs is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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