Specific Image

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 rarer and more wonderful than
the subject knows or dares to believe.'

Comment

Image S. J. Perelman 1962, Irving Penn. Words Irving Penn 1975, discovered at the National Portrait Gallery exhibit 2010.