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“This generations portrait and fashion photographer” Irving Penn “This generations portrait and fashion photographer”

Biography Born June 16, 1917 in Plainfield, N.J. He attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Art from 1934 to 1938 His first job on graduating in 1938 was art director of the Junior League magazine He won an audience with Alexander Liberman, art director of Vogue magazine, who hired Penn as his assistant In the 1950s, Penn founded his own studio in New York and continued to develop his fashion, commercial and personal work for the rest of his life

Childhood Penn was born to a Russian Jewish Family Penn attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) from 1934 to 1938

Brother His brother Arthur Penn was just as artistic as him Arthur Penn work: Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Little Big Man (1970) and The Miracle Worker (1962) Photo by Rolf Klatt - © WireImage.com

Style of photography: ”Less is more" Penn was a purist who mistrusted perfect beauty, which brought an engaging tension to his fashion photographs as well as his still lifes and portraits. ©1950 Irving Penn / Conde Nast Archive, Conde Nast Publications

Duchess of Windsor (1 of 2), New York, 1948 Gelatin silver print © The Irving Penn Foundation

© The Irving Penn Foundation Jean Patchett (B), Lima, 1948 Gelatin silver print © The Irving Penn Foundation

Gold and Silver Make-Up (B), New York, 1985 Dye transfer print ©The Irving Penn Foundation

Issey Miyake Seaweed Dress, New York, 1987 Platinum-palladium print © The Irving Penn Foundation

Platinum-palladium print © The Irving Penn Foundation Cigarette No. 17, New York, 1972 Platinum-palladium print © The Irving Penn Foundation “What Penn does with an honesty that few of his peers can muster, is remind us that a body, rounded and grounded, is one of the more enthralling objects on earth," Anthony Lane wrote in the New Yorker magazine in 2002.”

©1943 Irving Penn / Conde Nast Archive, Conde Nast Publications “Irving Penn's first attempt at fashion photography was a still life with a scarf, gloves and leather bag. It appeared on the cover of Vogue magazine on Oct. 1, 1943. He went on to shoot more than 150 covers for Vogue”.

©1948 Irving Penn / Christie's Penn's 1948 photograph of two impoverished Peruvian youngsters, titled "Cuzco Children," sold for $529,000 in 2008, setting a world auction record. It was one of his "platinum-palladium" prints, a meticulous and costly process that involves repeated printings of a negative on one piece of paper to create an extraordinary depth and richness.

Irving Penn (American, 1917–2009) Title: Model with Yellow Hat, 1996

Irving Penn (American, 1917–2009) Title: Schiaparelli Jacket with Tinsel and Glass, 1977 19.75 x 18.38 in. (50.2 x 46.7 cm.)

Portraits for vogue magazine

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