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PENN'S MAJESTY.(photographer Irving Penn)(Editorial)
Byline: Anna Wintour
This issue is a surprise birthday party for Irving Penn, who turns 90 this month. I mean this quite literally: Mr. Penn loathes personal publicity, and any knowledge that we were planning a birthday homage would have sent him running for the hills-armed, of course, with his Rolleiflex camera and his bedside lamp (see Kennedy Fraser's "The Mighty Penn," page 136). So over a period of months we asked him-without telling him why-to shoot a variety of subjects and to let us have a few recent, unpublished works. Seeing them together, I am struck afresh by the extraordinary level of versatility and inventiveness he brings to the page. His work is as exquisite and electrifying today as it was in 1943, when he started contributing to Vogue.
When I asked him, over lunch last February, to shoot a portrait of Cate Blanchett (see "Majesty," page 150), he immediately drew a sketch over a movie still I had brought along. This I promptly sent, via Executive Fashion Editor Phyllis Posnick (Penn's longtime collaborator at Vogue), to Nicolas Ghesquiere at Balenciaga. Penn always conceives of a picture beforehand in this way; Vogue facilitates his vision rather than vice versa, and the results are replicated in Vogue's pages as full-scale fashion portfolios and magisterial still lifes.
There is no one else who works with this level of imaginative ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Tom Hopkinson October 9, 2009 700+ words
...his mask and discloses nothing. Irving Penn was born in 1917 in Plainfield...attention, and the accompanying volume Irving Penn by the Museum's Director, John...exhibition, "Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-50", at the...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 7, 2004 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Artforum International Boxer, Sarah April 1, 2002 700+ words
...had completed his first nudes, Irving Penn declared: "The relationship between...of each other." Will the real Irving Penn please stand up? Maybe the real...large prints in "Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-50," curated...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Mark Feeney October 8, 2009 700+ words
Irving Penn, whose photographs made high art out of...most famous subjects. Yet it was Mr. Penn's genius to show that both exemplify...common was, and is, the sensibility of Irving Penn. Mr. Penn was born in Plainfield, N...
- Pursuing perfection; Irving Penn's photos.(ARTS & CULTURE)(PHOTOGRAPHY)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times June 18, 2005 700+ words
...photographer, the tall, elegant man named Irving Penn spent an extra week in the mountains...return. Some 57 years later, Mr. Penn's perfectionism has been fulfilled in the National Gallery of Art's "Irving Penn: Platinum Prints" (June 19 through...
- Obit-Irving Penn
- Picture from: AP Images Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn October 7, 2009 700+ words
In this undated image released by the Irving Penn Studio, photographer Irving Penn is shown at a photo shoot with a New Guinea...his Manhattan home. He was 92. (AP Photo/Irving Penn Studio, Inc.,Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn)
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- Picture from: AP Images Irving Penn October 7, 2009 700+ words
...a platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, by Irving Penn is shown. Penn, whose photographs revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether...York on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Christie's, Irving Penn)