Irving Penn Centennial
Maria Morris Hambourg · first published 2017 · ISBN 9781588396181
This retrospective, published on Penn's 100th birthday, draws from nearly 70 years of his work. Penn's studio portraits, fashion photographs, and still-life work appear alongside lesser-known experiments and recently discovered prints. The scale is immense. Photographs of Marlene Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn, and countless others sit beside his botanical studies and tribal portraits. Every image demonstrates his obsession with light, shadow, and the geometry of the frame.
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Penn proved that fashion and portraiture photography could be high art through nothing but discipline and vision. His studio was his laboratory. This book is a masterclass in seeing light.