The Irving Penn Foundation
Private Collection
I. Penn, Moments Preserved, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960, p. 94
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. 11, p. 24
Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, Boston: Bulfinch, 1997, p. 58
S. Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art/New Haven: Yale U., 2005, pl. 14
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, New Haven: Yale U., 2015, pl. 63
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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