Bambi
10-08-2009, 09:30 PM
He was a brilliant portrait photographer and had some great quotes:
"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 -"
A good photograph is one that communicate a fact, touches the heart, leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective. - Irving Penn -
http://www.usposttoday.com/irving-penn-dies-aged-92-fashion-photographer/
Portrait of Trumann Capote
http://www.masters-of-fine-art-photography.com/artphotogallery/database/penn02.jpg
"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 -"
A good photograph is one that communicate a fact, touches the heart, leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective. - Irving Penn -
http://www.usposttoday.com/irving-penn-dies-aged-92-fashion-photographer/
Portrait of Trumann Capote
http://www.masters-of-fine-art-photography.com/artphotogallery/database/penn02.jpg