In the Corner

Mrs William Rhinelander Stewart


Igor Stravinsky


Gypsy Rose Lee


Marcel Duchamp


Martha Graham


Salvador Dali


Marlene Dietrich


Truman Capote


Wallis Simpson

"A good photograph is one that communicate a fact, touches the heart, leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective."

"I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel."

Portraits "in the corner" by Irving Penn (16th June 1917 – 7th October 2009)