Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.
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.
- 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
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…
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.
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.
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…
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 …
I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes - Irving Penn
I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes
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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