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Authors, works and languages of the image
Irving Penn
Jean Cocteau, 1948
"Jean Cocteau, Paris", 1948. © The Irving Penn Foundation.
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Introduction
The photographic portrait, in its highest ontological expression, does not merely record the passive physiognomy of an individual; it aspires to capture their psychological, intellectual, and spiritual essence, distilling the complexity of a lifetime into a single fraction of a second.
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