Irving Penn - Photographer

[fredo]

jean patchett au pérou, same source
penn 1949 jean patchett au pérou a fb

penn 1949 jean patchett au pérou b fb

penn 1949 jean patchett au pérou avec un tapada fb

penn 1949 jean patchett en ensemble de torero fb

 

[BerlinRocks]

^thanks...

 

[mikel]

Magic In The Makeup



herfamedgoodlooks

Love these pics of Lisa. The Mickey Mouse pic is not part of this ed though.

 

[Selket]

Oh really?
It seemed to fit in so well

 

[hfgl]

Linda Evangelista
Vogue US February 1990



JW Scans

 

[hfgl]

Does anybody have this book?It looks divine...
from 1988

books.google.com

 

[iluvjeisa]

Four shots for American Vogue in 1962. Scanned by me.

 

[Selket]

loving them

 

[Leeroi]

I love this photo of Eugenia Penn shot, there's something very powerful and yet almost vulnerable about her expression.

does anyone have the HQ of this?

thanks in advance.

 

[hfgl]

^Bigger pic.

scanned by me.

 

[Leeroi]

^Bigger pic.

scanned by me.

thank you thank you!

 

[versustito]

US Vogue - October 1990

Photographer: Irving Penn




scan by Phila
bellazon

 

[hfgl]

model : Susan Holmes
Fashion Editor : Grace Coddington
US Vogue February 1991


scanned by MissIvana

 

[Faith Akiyama]

Rest in Peace

Irving Penn, one of the 20th century’s most prolific and influential photographers of fashion and the famous, whose signature blend of classical elegance and cool minimalism was recognizable to magazine readers and museumgoers worldwide, died Wednesday morning at his home in Manhattan. He was 92.

His death was announced by Peter MacGill, his friend and representative.
Mr. Penn’s talent for picturing his subjects with compositional clarity and economy earned him the widespread admiration of readers of Vogue during his long association with the magazine, beginning in 1943. It also brought him recognition in the art world; his photographs have been exhibited in museums and galleries and are prized by collectors.

His long career at Vogue spanned a number of radical transformations in fashion and its depiction, but his style remained remarkably constant. Imbued with calm and decorum, his photographs often seemed intent on defying fashion. His models and portrait subjects were never seen leaping or running or turning themselves into blurs. Even the rough-and-ready members of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang, photographed in San Francisco in 1967, were transformed within the quieting frame of his studio camera into the graphic equivalent of a Greek frieze.

Instead of spontaneity, Mr. Penn provided the illusion of a seance, his gaze precisely describing the profile of a Balenciaga coat or of a Moroccan jalaba in a way that could almost mesmerize the viewer. Nothing escaped the edges of his photographs unless he commanded it. Except for a series of close-up portraits that cut his subjects’ heads off at the forehead, and another, stranger suite of overripe nudes, his subjects were usually shown whole, apparently enjoying a splendid isolation from the real world.

He was probably most famous for photographing Parisian fashion models and the world’s great cultural figures, but he seemed equally at home photographing Peruvian peasants or bunion pads. Merry Foresta, co-organizer of a 1990 retrospective of his work at the National Museum of American Art, wrote that his pictures exhibited “the control of an art director fused with the process of an artist.”

It's a long tribute article and you can read the rest here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/arts/design/08penn.html

 

[Royal-Galliano]

rest in peace!

 

[pandinha]

A full life. RIP Mr Penn.

 

[Fiercification]

What a sad day...I'm just thankful I have been able to truly appreciate Penn's photographs for the last few years since I got into fashion.

RIP, you'll never be forgotten

 

[Fontenrose]

a unique talent...

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Aw this is a sad news, RIP, will forever love your work.

 

[Scott]

ah....i just posted a separate article in the rumours forum.

hope no one minds. i think he deserves a formal condolence thread.