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

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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…

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I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

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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.

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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…

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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 …

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I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes

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

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Photographing a cake can be art.

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