The Irving Penn Foundation
Private Collection
I. Penn & D. Vreeland, Inventive Paris Clothes, 1909-1939: A Photographic Essay, New York: Viking, 1977, p. 79
J. Szarkowski, Irving Penn, New York: MoMA, 1984, pl. 124
M.A. Foresta et al., Irving Penn: Master Images, The Collections of the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1990, pl. 48, p. 61
I. Penn, Passage: A Work Record, New York: Knopf, 1991, p. 212
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, New Haven: Yale U., 2015, pl. 125
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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