Most of the time the ones who dislike the pictures the most confirm to me that the picture has hit home and is probably truer than I know. Nobody minds a boring picture, they mind a picture that has gotten to the soft core.
Irving PennA beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
Irving PennI've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.
Irving PennI can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
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