Irving Penn
Irving Penn
Irving Penn was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally and continues to inform the art of photography...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth16 June 1917
CityPlainfield, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
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 that the inside is recordable only insofar as it is apparent on the outside...Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.
Photographing a cake can be art.
Working on photography is working on oneself.
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.