Unlikely conversations, #397 in a series

Groucho Marx and Diana Ross


Eleanor Roosevelt and Lucille Ball


Eartha Kitt and Marilyn Monroe


Gloria Vanderbilt, Pearl Bailey and Truman Capote


Kathleen Turner, Madonna, Martha Graham and Calvin Klein

Oh, to be a fly on the wall...

Mirror, mirror, on the wall...

Joan and Jayne


Martha Graham


Tallulah

...who is the fairest of them all?

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)

Thought for the day...

"You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it."
Anon



The E.O. Hoppé photographic exhibition is now on at the National Portrait Gallery.

Hoppé Portraits website