Irving Penn
American · 1917–2009
Photographer whose immaculate still lifes, fashion images, and ethnographic portraits for Vogue set a standard of formal perfection in 20th-century photography.
Wikipedia ↗“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart, and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it.”
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Irving Penn: Passage, 1991 ↗ (1991)
“Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world.”
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Irving Penn: Passage, 1991 ↗ (1991)
“A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.”
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Irving Penn: Passage, 1991 ↗ (1991)
“Photographing a cake can be art.”
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“I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.”
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