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These are some quotes by American author Irving Penn Photographer, who lived between June 16, 1917 and October 7, 2009.

 
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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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... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

Irving Penn

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

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

Irving Penn

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

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

Irving Penn

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