Irving Penn's Profile
Brief about Irving Penn: By info that we know Irving Penn was born at 1917-06-16. And also Irving Penn is American Photographer.
Some Irving Penn's quotes. Goto "Irving Penn's quotation" section for more.A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
Tags: Beautiful, House, PrintI 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.
Tags: Best, Care, MoneyI can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
Tags: Curse, Enough, ObsessedI feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
Tags: Admire, Art, HungerI have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
Tags: Camera, Instrument, StoodThe severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
Tags: Greatest, Joy, MayUsing simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
Tags: Alone, Pleasure, SimpleWhat I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.
Tags: Serenity, State, TryI've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.
Tags: Control, Few, WorkLiberman 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.
Tags: Nice, Woman, WorkMany 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.
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