Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one … - Irving Penn

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To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.

Irving Penn

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

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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.

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I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

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