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Irving
Penn: Small Trades
by Virginia Heckert, Anne Lacoste
Hardcover from J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: 0892369965
Photographer Irving Penn (b. 1917) is renowned for his
innovative contributions to portrait, still life, and fashion photography,
and a career that has spanned more than six decades at Vogue magazine.
In 1950, Vogue assigned Penn to photograph workers in Paris, and
thus his monumental work The Small Trades began. Created in 1950 and 1951
in Paris, London, and New York, The Small Trades consists of portraits
of skilled tradespeople dressed in their work clothes and carrying the
tools of their respective trades. Capturing the humble coal heaver and
the crisply dressed waiter with equal directness, Penn's arresting portraits
also underscore fascinating cultural differences.
The Small Trades was Penn's most extensive body of
work, and he returned to it over many decades, producing ever more exacting
prints. Two hundred-six unique images from the series are flawlessly reproduced
in this book. In addition, the introductory essay describes the history
and context of The Small Trades series and its importance to Penn's career
and the history of photography. An interview with Edmonde Charles-Roux,
the chief editor for French Vogue from 1952 to 1966, who assisted
Penn on the assignment in Paris, provides fascinating insights of the Paris
sittings. |
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Irving
Penn Portraits
by Magdalene Keaney, Sandy Nairne
Hardcover from Abrams
ISBN: 1855144174
Drawn from a career spanning seven decades, Irving Penn Portraits
presents thirty photographs of renowned personalities by one of the most
distinguished photographers of the 20th century. With an essay by curator
Magdalene Keaney, Irving Penn Portraits is the first book to focus
exclusively on Penn's portraiture and his contributions to the genre. From
Penn's early work of the 1940s to recent images made in 21st century, Irving
Penn Portraits honors a selection of photographs with reproductions
of superb quality. Among those featured are Giorgio de Chirico, Igor Stravinsky,
Pablo Picasso, Duke Ellington, Marlene Dietrich, Woody Allen, Rudolf Nureyev,
Helmut Newton and Jasper Johns. |
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Still
Life : Irving Penn Photographs, 1938-2000
by Irving Penn, John Szarkowski
Hardcover from Bulfinch
ISBN: 0821227025
Irving Penn is one of the leading photographers of the 20th century.
His elegant and innovative photographs are the subject of this volume.
It includes some 200 images. |
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Irving
Penn: A Career in Photography
Paperback from Art Institute of Chicago
ISBN: 0300122365
Now available in paperback
Irving Penn's photographs have become iconic documents of an era--from
his fashion and commercial editorials to his series of nudes and portraits
of artists, musicians, writers, celebrities, and tribesmen of New Guinea,
Peru, and Morocco. Originally published in 1997 to accompany an exhibition
celebrating the Irving Penn Collection and Archives at the Art Institute
of Chicago, this book examines Penn's remarkable and wide-ranging career
and his uncompromising artistic vision. With nearly 200 captivating photographs
that span the entire scope of his artistic production--including poetic
portraits of Cecil Beaton, Marcel Duchamp, Arshile Gorky, Elsa Schiaparelli,
Georgia O'Keeffe, and Truman Capote--the book features essays by distinguished
scholars and reflections by individuals who have known him well or collaborated
with him. They also discuss Penn's particular genius for demonstrating
how a profound and humane art can be created at the center of a society
increasingly dominated by and enthralled with mass media. |
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Passage:
A Work Record
by Alexandra Arrowsmith, Nicola Majocchi, Irving Penn
Hardcover from Alfred A. Knopf
Media Published: 1991-
ISBN: 0679404910 |
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Irving
Penn Regards the Work of Issey Miyake
by Irving Penn
Hardcover from Bulfinch Press
ISBN: 0821226290
For more than ten years there has been an extraordinary collaboration
between Irving Penn, one of the great photographers of the century, and
the designer Issey Miyake, one of the few figures to have taken clothes
design into the realm of art. "Penn's photographs allow me to see my own
designs," claims Miyake. These photographs define Miyake's work on the
printed page.
Miyake's astonishing forms and textures have offered Penn subjects that
echo both a primitive tribal beauty and the most futuristic fashion. As
the century draws to a close, the barriers that traditionally separated
East and West are diminishing. The sources for inspiration for both men
are global, stretching from Africa to Miyake's Japan. This book is a culmination
of a certain period in their creative lives.
Irving Penn's reputation as a photographer was established with an extensive
body of portraits, still lifes, and some of the most important fashion
photographs of our time. He produced his first color photograph, a still
life for the cover of Vogue, in 1943. Between 1967 and 1971 he traveled
to Dahomey (Benin), Nepal, Cameroon, New Guinea, and Morocco with a portable
photographic studio. Many of the resulting portraits were published in
Worlds in a Small Room in 1974. His other books include Moments Preserved
(1960), Inventive Paris Clothes 1909-1939 (), Flowers (1980), and Passage
(1991). A retrospective of his work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern
Art in New York in 1984. In 1997, the Art Institute of Chicago mounted
an exhibition that then traveled to the Hermitage in St. Petersburg ()
and continues on a world tour. RND |
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A
Notebook at Random
by Irving Penn
Hardcover from Bulfinch
ISBN: 0821261924
From his very first photograph, made on assignment for Vogue in 1943,
to startlingly fresh images that he continues to make for that magazine
today at age 87, Irving Penn again and again shows 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, along with the rough sketches and line drawings that
provide a window into ideas and images in the making. The book is populated
with artists, writers, and models whose lives intersected with Penn's:
Picasso looks out at us with that timeless intensity that characterizes
an Irving Penn portrait. Many of the photographs are alternate poses or
torn test fragments, pages from his personal 'notebook'; some are newer-found
discoveries, including a previously unpublished portrait of Truman Capote.
Some of the most striking pages in this 'notebook' reproduce Penn's painted
photographs and mixed-media works, images so layered and exquisitely constructed
that they resemble Cubist assemblages. With brief text excerpts and notations
from Penn throughout, this is the most intimate and arresting book yet
from one of the most admired artists of our time. |
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Irving
Penn: Platinum Prints
by Sarah Greenough, Irving Penn
Hardcover from Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300109067
In a career that spans more than fifty years, photographer Irving
Penn has created some of the most arresting portraits, influential fashion
studies, and provocative still lifes of the twentieth century. Although
much of his work was undertaken for reproduction in magazines, since the
early 1960s he has also made a limited number of platinum/palladium prints
of his most celebrated photographs. A meticulous craftsman, Penn has experimented
extensively with this process in order to make prints with remarkably subtle,
rich tonal ranges and luxurious textures; prints that are, in fact, the
exact opposite of the more neutral reproductions of his photographs that
appear in the popular press.
Included in this handsomely designed and beautifully produced book are
platinum/palladium prints of some of Penn's most important photographs:
portraits of Pablo Picasso, David Smith, Saul Steinberg, and Marcel Duchamp;
studies of indigenous peoples in New Guinea and Peru; innovative still
lifes; in addition to examples of his celebrated fashion studies. |
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Flowers
by Irving Penn
Hardcover from Harmony Books
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