Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say the photographs burn on the page . After some years, I began to understand that what they wanted of me was simply a nice, sweet, clean-looking image of a lovely young woman.
In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is… - Irving Penn
In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is…
- Irving Penn
I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children. - Irving Penn
I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
Most of the time the ones who dislike the pictures the most confirm to me that the picture has hit home and is probably truer than I know. Nobody min… - Irving Penn
Most of the time the ones who dislike the pictures the most confirm to me that the picture has hit home and is probably truer than I know. Nobody min…
I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel. - Irving Penn
I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment. - Irving Penn
Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes - Irving Penn
I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies … - Irving Penn
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies …
Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn
Photographing a cake can be art.
What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity. - Irving Penn
What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.
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