American Vogue, 15 September 1950
French Vogue, September 1950
Art Institute of Chicago, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, pl. 35 and fig. 4
Gee, Photography of the Fifties: An American Perspective, p. 152
Knopf/Callaway, Irving Penn: Passage, a Work Record, p. 85
Szarkowski, Irving Penn, pl. 54
Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, p. 158
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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