Fashion & Portrait Photographer Irving Penn Fashion & Portrait Photographer By: Linda Huynh

Biography Born in Plainfield, New Jersey on June 16, 1917 He died October 7, 2009 in New York City Education: Philadelphia Museum School of Art from 1934-1938, learned advertising design First job after graduating, he was an art director for the Junior League magazine Irving spent a year in Mexico for painting Became a graphic designer in New York, before shooting pictures for Vogue Penn was selected by Brodovitch to be his assistant for a year in the art department of Harper’s

Irving Penn His first camera was a Rolleiflex On October 1, 1944 vogue published his first cover During his time working with Vogue, he got to travel around the world (France, Spain, Italy, England, Austria, Scotland, etc.) He married Lisa Fonssagrives (fashion model) in 1950

Childhood His parents moved to Philadelphia His dad worked as a watchmaker His mother was a nurse Brother of motion picture director Arthur Penn “Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.”- Irving Penn

Style of photography: Fashion Portrait Penn stages photographs that appear to have simplistic and aristocratic style

Harlequin Dress (Lisa Fonssagrives – Penn),1950 Platinum palladium print, printed 1979 $300,000 - 500,000 19 7/8 x 19 7/8 in. (50.5 x 50.5 cm.)

Mouth (For L’oreal), New York 1986 Dye-transfer print 18 3/5 x 18 3/10 in (47.3 x 46.6 cm)

Vogue Fashion Photography (Lima, Peru), 1948 Selenium toned gelatin silver paint, printed 1985 46 x 44.3 cm (18 1/8 x 17 ½ in.)

Balthus, Paris, 1948 Fahey/Klein Gallery 15.5 x 14.75 in. (39.4 x 37.5 cm.)

Marlene Dietrich, New York, 1948, Atlas Gallery 10,000-20,000 USD 9 x 7.5 in. (22.9 x 19 cm.)

£40,000-50,000 Audrey Hepburn, Paris, 1951 Gelatin silver print 34.9 x 34 cm (13.3/4 x 13.3/8 in.)

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