Spojené státy americké · 1917–2009

Irving Penn

Irving Penn: kde vidět jeho díla. Katalog obsahuje 627 děl ze sbírek 7 institucí; u žádného dnes není hlášeno vystavení.

Irving Penn (1917–2009), the American fashion photographer, was born in Plainfield, attended Abraham Lincoln High School and in 1934 began studying at the University of the Arts. His first photographic cover for Vogue appeared in 1943, and from 1964 he experimented with platinum printing. He died in Manhattan. About 630 of his photographs are in the Getty, the Whitney, Yale, Minneapolis, MoMA and the National Gallery of Art, including The Angel, New York (1946), several portraits of Simeon Braguin from the same year and Marc Chagall and Edmund Wilson, both 1947.