A Quote by Irving Penn

I'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 Penn

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Control Depart Failed Few Know Many Narrow Outside Quite Really Studio Times Too Tried Variables Work Work Out

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Irving Penn
American - Photographer
June 16, 1917 - October 7, 2009

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