I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls … - Irving Penn

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We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired.

Irving Penn

I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north sky that sets it beyond any other illumination. It is a light of such penetrating clarity that even a simple object lying by chance in such a light takes on an inner glow, almost a voluptuousness.

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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.

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A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

Heart, Inspirational, Person, Photography, Seen, Viewer

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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Working on photography is working on oneself.

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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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