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Irving Penn Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.



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Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.



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The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.





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