Acquired directly from the artist
Robert Klein Gallery, Boston
Fashion Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 18 November 2006 – 25 March 2007
Angeletti and Oliva, In Vogue, p. 146
Art Institute of Chicago, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, pl. 44
Centre National de la Photographie, Vanites, p. 45
Gee, Photography of the Fifties: An American Perspective, p. 154
Hall-Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography, p. 153
High Museum of Art, Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, p. 190
Szarkowski, Irving Penn, pl. 49
American Vogue, April 1950, pp. 86-87
American • 1917 - 2009
Arresting portraits, exquisite flowers, luscious food and glamorous models populate Irving Penn's meticulously rendered, masterful prints. Penn employed the elegant simplicity of a gray or white backdrop to pose his subjects, be it a model in the latest Parisian fashion, a famous subject or veiled women in Morocco.
Irving Penn's distinct aesthetic transformed twentieth-century elegance and style, with each brilliant composition beautifully articulating his subjects. Working across several photographic mediums, Penn was a master printmaker. Regardless of the subject, each and every piece is rendered with supreme beauty.
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