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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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What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

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Photographing a cake can be art.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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I 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.

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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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Liberman 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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: June 16th, 1917

Died: October 7th, 2009

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