Background
PENN, Irving was born on June 16, 1917 in Plainfield, New Jersey, United States. Son of Harry Penn and Sonia Pennsylvania
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Irving Penn: People in Passage
(7"x5"xl/4", Printed in Milan, Printed in Italian and English)
7"x5"xl/4", Printed in Milan, Printed in Italian and English
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A Notebook at Random
(From his very first photograph made on assignment for Vog...)
From his very first photograph made on assignment for Vogue in 1943 to the fresh images that he continues to make for that magazine today at age eighty-seven, Irving Penn again and again has shown an uncanny ability to surprise the world with his art. Far from a typical career retrospective, A Notebook at Random is a revelation. Included here are some of Penn's signature images - austere, elegantly composed portraits, still lifes, and fashion photographs - along with rough sketches and line drawings that provide a window into ideas and images in the making. A consummate technician and innovator, Penn invites us to consider process alongside end product, providing new insight into his radical compositions, experiments with light, and unique printing techniques. A Notebook at Random is populated with artists, writers, and models whose lives intersected with Penn's: Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Lisa Fonssagrives look out at us with that timeless intensity that characterizes an Irving Penn portrait. Many of the photographs presented here are alternate poses or torn test fragments, pages from his personal "notebook"; some are newer discoveries, including a previously unpublished portrait of Truman Capote. Some of the most striking pages in this "notebook" reproduce Penn's paintings, painted photographs, and mixed-media works, images so layered and exquisitely constructed that they resemble cubist assemblages. And in keeping with Penn's long-standing commitment to the optimal presentation of his work, this book is produced to the most exacting standards: fine paper, full cloth binding, and reproductions that are almost indistinguishable from his originals.
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Worlds in a Small Room.
(1974/1980. First edition thus (softcover), first printing...)
1974/1980. First edition thus (softcover), first printing. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated stiff wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs and text by Irving Penn. 96 pp., with 74 black-and-white plates. 10-1/2 x 10-3/8 inches. The first hardcover edition of this book was cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004). From the publisher: "Beginning in 1948, when he photographed the Peruvian Indians in Cuzco, Penn has traveled the world to compile these 'records of physical' presence.' He has set up his 'ambulant studio' on the edge of the Sahara, among gypsies in Spain, in the highlands of New Guinea, in the mountains of Nepal -- and has invited the inhabitants to step, for a moment, out of their worlds and into a new one....For this remarkable collection of photographs, Penn has provided a text in which he further illuminates the relationship between photographer and subject, and the relationship between photographer and camera."
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Irving Penn - Photographs in Platinum Metals Images 1947-1975. Marlborough Gallery Exhbition Catalogue.
(Thin catalogue with 12 images of nudes, Indians, and ciga...)
Thin catalogue with 12 images of nudes, Indians, and cigarette butts.
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Moments Preserved: Eight Essays In Photographs And Words
(Irving Penn's first book, printed in gravure, and divided...)
Irving Penn's first book, printed in gravure, and divided into eight chapters: The Flavor of France, Picasso's Barcelona, Italian Gallery, Moroccan Visit, Faces of England, Christmas in Cuzco, New York Scrapbook, and The Small Trades. Photographs by Irving Penn; introduction by Alexander Liberman; text by Penn and Rosemary Blackmon. 183 pages; ca. 300 gravure-printed b&w and color illustrations; 10 x 13 inches. Index. Ref: Roth, Book of 101 Books, p.158-159; Hasselblad Center, Open Book p.186-187; Sinibaldi & Couturier, Regards sur un siecle de photographie a travers Le Livre, p.123; Auer, 802 Photo Books, p.401.
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Irving PENN
Irving PENN, American photographer.
Education
Attended, Philadelphia Museum School Industrial Art, 1934—1938.
Career
Served (collection of 300 photographs) 1960, Worlds in a Small Room 1974, Inventive Paris Clothes 1909-1939 1977, Flowers 1980.
Achievements
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Irving Penn has been listed as a noteworthy Photographer by Marquis Who's Who.
Works
book
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A Notebook at Random
(From his very first photograph made on assignment for Vog...)
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Moments Preserved: Eight Essays In Photographs And Words
(Irving Penn's first book, printed in gravure, and divided...)
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Irving Penn - Photographs in Platinum Metals Images 1947-1975. Marlborough Gallery Exhbition Catalogue.
(Thin catalogue with 12 images of nudes, Indians, and ciga...)
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Irving Penn: People in Passage
(7"x5"xl/4", Printed in Milan, Printed in Italian and English)
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Worlds in a Small Room.
(1974/1980. First edition thus (softcover), first printing...)
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A Notebook at Random
Connections
Married Lisa Fonssagrives, 1950 (deceased 1992). 1 child, Tom.
- Father:
- Harry Penn
- Mother:
- Sonia Penn
- Spouse:
- Lisa Fonssagrives
- child:
- Tom Penn
References
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Born
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Died
October 7, 2009 (aged 92) -
Nationality
American
Awards
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The Cultural Award from the German Society for Photography (DGPh)