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)

"Wichita's one and only burlesque theatre presents..."

"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly."

"The shoulder strap led to one thing and another, if you know what I mean, and that's how I started in the strip business."

"I wasn't naked, I was completely covered by a blue spotlight."

Gypsy Rose Lee (9th January 1911 – 26th April 1970)

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