Galleria Photology, Milan
Private Collection, London
I. Penn, Moments Preserved, Simon and Schuster, 1960, p. 39
J. Szarkowski, Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, 1984, p. 27, fig. 17
I. Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Knopf, 1991, p. 125
C. Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago/ Bulfinch Press, 1997, p. 114
S. Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington/ Yale University Press, 2005, pl. 37
Irving Penn: Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2010, n.p.
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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