Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
J. Szarkowski, Irving Penn, MoMA, 1984, pl. 126
I. Penn, Passage, A Work Record, Knopf, 1991, p. 219
C. Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago/ Bulfinch, 1997, p. 20, fig. 8
I. Penn, Still Life, Thames & Hudson, 2001, n.p.
S. Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington/ Yale, 2005, p.175, pl. 70
M. A. Foresta, ed., Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, Smithsonian American Art Museum/ Yale, p. 187, pl. 131
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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