About UsThis means cropping pictures.Capturing the moment, from the right angle, with the correct settings and using natural light is tricky. Framing an image should create various angles, lines and spaces that communicate with each other. Within this space is the frame and making an educated choice in a snap of a moment is what creates great photographs and photographers.
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Who We Are |
Capturing the moment, from the right angle, with the correct settings and using natural light is tricky. Framing an image should create various angles, lines and spaces that communicate with each other. Within this space is the frame and making an educated choice in a snap of a moment is what creates great photographs and photographers.Best known for his fashion photography,[9] Penn's repertoire also includes portraits of creative greats; ethnographic photographs from around the world; Modernist still lifes of food, bones, bottles, metal, and found objects; and photographic travel essays.[8][10]
Penn was among the first photographers to pose subjects against a simple grey or white backdrop and he effectively used this simplicity.[8][10] Expanding his austere studio surroundings, Penn constructed a set of upright angled backdrops, to form a stark, acute corner. Subjects photographed with this technique included Martha Graham, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Georgia O'Keeffe, W. H. Auden, and Igor Stravinsky. |
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Photographing a cake can be art" —Irving Penn.[18]
"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 one word, effective." —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." —Irving Penn, 1975. |