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Irving Penn, Extreme Beauty in Vogue, 2001

"In the studio, too, I like it to be in no way grand. Nor do I feel grand, because I'm full of doubts still about the ability to get the picture I'm going to take." (Irving Penn)

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Irving Penn, Extreme Beauty in Vogue, 2009

"I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough, that's the curse of being a photographer." " (Irving Penn)

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Irving Penn, Extreme Beauty in Vogue, 2009

"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)

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Irving Penn, Extreme Beauty in Vogue, 2009

"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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Irving Penn, 2001

"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)

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Irving Penn, Extreme Beauty in Vogue, 2009

"Photographing a cake can be art." (Irving Penn)

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Irving Penn, Mascara Wars, 2001

Ernest Hemingway: "Good pictures, what camera do you use?"
Irving Penn: "What typewriter do you use?"