Ben Shahn: Bibliography & Resources

The Shape of Content

Ben Shahn

Shahn's Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, an influential statement of his views on meaning, individuality, and the social responsibility of the artist.

ISBN: 978-0674302426

Ben Shahn, Photographer: An Album from the Thirties

Edited by Margaret R. Weiss

An album of Shahn's Depression-era photographs, among the first books to treat his FSA camera work as a body of art in its own right.

Ben Shahn's New York: The Photography of Modern Times

Deborah Martin Kao, Laura Katzman, and Jenna Webster

A scholarly study and catalogue, published with the Harvard Art Museums, examining Shahn's photography and its relationship to his work as a painter.

Ben Shahn: An Artist's Life

Howard Greenfeld

A full-length biography tracing Shahn's life from Lithuania and Brooklyn through his careers as painter, photographer, muralist, and printmaker.

Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn

Susan Chevlowe, with Stephen Polcari and others

The catalogue of the Jewish Museum's exhibition surveying Shahn's painting and its themes of social justice, identity, and the common man.