Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Chicago, 1997
I. Penn, Moments Preserved, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960, p. 170
I. Penn, Passage: A Work Record, New York: Knopf, 1991, p. 98
S. Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2005, pl. 31
V. Heckert & A. Lacoste, Irving Penn: Small Trades, Los Angeles: Getty, 2009, pl. 200
M. Hambourg & J. Rosenheim, Irving Penn: Centennial, New York: The Met, 2017, pl. 101 p.180
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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