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Irving Penn

American Photographer

Born: Jun 16, 1917

Died: Oct 7, 2009

Art Me Woman Work World You

Related authors: Annie Leibovitz Ansel Adams Berenice Abbott Diane Arbus Dorothea Lange Gordon Parks Imogen Cunningham Robert Mapplethorpe

I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer. Irving Penn

Long Enough Photographer Obsessed Look Get Being Curse Anything

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment. Irving Penn

Alone Me Simple Pleasure Daylight Equipment Using

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity. Irving Penn

People Try Rest State Photograph Really Serenity

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader. Irving Penn

Joy World Severe Reader Greatest Subject May Interesting Portrait

Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader. Irving Penn

Woman Joy World Responsibility Severe Intrigue Photographers Vogue Feed Feel Reader Client Greatest Reads Stimulate Subject Trying May Interesting Kansas Who Many Her Portrait

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page. Irving Penn

Beautiful Way House Halfway Print Itself Just Page Thing

I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know. Irving Penn

Work You Few Control Too Tried Variables Outside Studio Failed Know Narrow Times Depart Quite Really Many

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