Photo Love: Statuesque stills and Irving Penn

I came across this article about Irving Penn's work and was struck by this picture of his wife Lisa Fonssagrives.  His portraits of women were "perfectly, pristinely, imagined and arranged – the representation of a mind’s eye."  He would have his models stand in still poses for hours with only slight movements.  Then he could really capture them as something more than a person in a picture.

I also liked that he had portraits like the one of Truman Capote below.

Sometimes you depict someone by studying the person for a while and sometimes you portray someone just by capturing a moment.

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