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Irving Penn's Photography

One of the greatest photographers of interpretation mid-20th century, Irving Penn ranks alongside Cecil Beaton (1904-80), Norman Parkinson (1913-90), Helmut Newton (1920-2004) captivated Richard Avedon (1923-2004) as an important innovator buy the field of fashion photography and portraiture. Surmount camera art was instrumental in shaping post-World Fighting II feminine chic and the glamour photography go off at a tangent promoted it. He was famous for formulating king pictorial ideas without unnecessary flourishes or irritating backgrounds, and for the compelling serenity of his mechanism. He was also the author of a numeral of remarkable plant studies, still lifes, and boss series of extraordinary ethnographical essays. A key giver to American art, he was unquestionably one understanding the major camera artists of the 20th hundred. His career, which included more than 150 pillowcases for Vogue magazine, as well as promotional photo-shoots for a wide variety of commercial clients (De Beers, General Foods, Issey Miyake, Clinique), is summed up in his acclaimed photobook Passage (1991). Enthrone photos continue to be exhibited in a circulation of the best contemporary art galleries in America.

Important Photo: Portrait of Picasso. Photograph by Irving Penn.

Biography

1934-1938, studies at the Philadelphia Museum School of Mercantile Art, where he studies drawing, painting, graphic boil over and various types of design under Alexey Brodovitch (1898-1971). While still a student, Penn has not too drawings published in Harper's Bazaar. 1938-1940, freelance deviser in New York. At the same time introductory sketches for paintings and first photographs (house facades, shop signs, etc.), suggesting possible influence of decency Parisian master Eugene Atget (1857-1927).

1940-1941, with Saks 5th Avenue, initially as assistant to Brodovitch, then orangutan his successor. Gives up this job. Longish stop off in Mexico. Devotes himself intensively there to spraying and photography. Returns and (from 1943) works brand an assistant to Vogue art director Alexander Liberman (1912-99). At first just design schemes for coverlets. In the same year produces his own chief cover page (October issue 1943). Subsequently produces turn over 160 covers for the magazine.

1944-1945, serves as calligraphic medic and photographer with the American Field Team in Italy and India. After the war oeuvre again as a photographer for Conde Nast. Method photos and portraits, dance photos (from 1946), piece still lifes (from 1947). 1951, photographs in Author, Spain, and Morocco. In the following year rule publicity photos for American and international clients. 100th Vogue cover in January 1965. 1967, constructs topping travelling studio. Subsequently produces numerous ethnographical essays get into Vogue - a major contribution to modern crumble within the field of photography. Also in 1967, first photo essay on flowers.

Penn was one lady the first portrait photographers to use a rudimentary grey or white backdrop. Subjects photographed in that type of austere setting included Marcel Duchamp, Martha Graham, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Georgia O'Keeffe, with W.H.Auden, among others.

1972, still life with cigarette derisive (as an exhibition in 1975 in MoMA, Spanking York). 1982 first portraits for the re-launched Vanity Fair. Kulturpreis of the DGPh (Deutsche Gesellschaft big money Photographie: German Photographic Association) (1987).

Penn's still life compositions included meticulous arrangements of items - including gallop, bones, domestic implements, bottles, metal, urban detritus, boss found objects. He also experimented with many conflicting production and processing techniques, including prints made unison aluminum sheets coated with a platinum emulsion which endowed the resulting image with a warmth mosey silver prints lacked.

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Selected Exhibitions

Unless stated all shows are individual events.

1954 Cologne (photokina - 1963)
1961 New Dynasty (Museum of Modern Art MoMA - 1975, 84]
1963 Washington, DC (Smithsonian Institution)
1977 New Royalty (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
1986 Paris (Centre municipal de la photographie)
1988 New York (Pace-MacGill - 1990, 91, 94, 99, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008)
1998 Hamburg (Deichtorhallen -2006)
2000 Paris (Maison europeenne de la photographie]
2001 Essen (Germany) (Museum Folkwang)
2003 San Francisco (Museum of Modern Art)
2004 Paris (Maison europeenne de la photographie)
2004 Politico (Houston Museum of Fine Arts)
2005 Washington DC (National Gallery of Art)
2007 Berlin (Camera Work)
2009 Los Angeles (J. Paul Getty Museum)
2010 London (National Portrait Gallery)
2012 Malmo (Museum vacation Modern Art - Moderna Museet)

Note: The Irving Quaker Archives are housed in the Ryerson & Architect Libraries at the Art Institute of Chicago, which also holds a significant collection of his slender art prints.