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Full Circle.(Irving Penn exhibition)(Brief article)
Byline: LESLIE CAMHI editor: Valerie Steiker
A show of Irving Penn's still lifes reveals the master at his best.
More than half a century separates Irving Penn' s photograph of his swanlike wife, Lisa Fonssa-grives-Penn, swathed in a djellaba and sitting cross-legged beside a teakettle in a Moroccan palace, and his tightly focused show of ten pictures of vessels, opening this month at New York's Pace/MacGill Gallery. Yet the same elegance of line and strength of character inform them both. For his latest work, Penn has assembled a veritable harem of pitchers, pots, and a single cup, made of metals and ceramic and collected by the photographer and his wife (who died in 1992) in their travels during four decades of marriage. His lush and sober black-and-white portraits of these containers reveal each object in possession of a rich past.
"Vessels are austere and seductive," the famously reticent and camera-shy photographer, now 90, says. How else to ...
- New York (Artprice.com): Exhibition of Irving Penn's Photographs at the...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 7, 2004 700+ words
...United States in 1917, Irving Penn began his career working...Underfoot: Photographs by Irving Penn" presents one of the...into the pavements of New York that look like abstract...artist's camera lens. Irving Penn's appetite for portraits...
- Henri CARTIER-BRESSON and his wife RETNA MOHINI. USA. New York City. 1946....
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Magnum Photos : Henri Cartier-Bresson January 1, 1908 700+ words
...BRESSON and his wife RETNA MOHINI. USA. New York City. 1946. Photo by Irving PENN, courtesy CONDE NAST inc. Keywords...BRESSON and his wife RETNA MOHINI. USA. New York City. 1946. Photo by Irving PENN, courtesy CONDE NAST inc. HCB 1908...
- Irving Penn: Whitney Museum of American Art/Metropolitan Museum of Art, New...
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Boxer, Sarah April 1, 2002 700+ words
...completed his first nudes, Irving Penn declared: "The relationship...other." Will the real Irving Penn please stand up? Maybe...are now on view in New York. The large prints in "Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-50...
- Irving Penn: Metropolitan museum of art; whitney museum of American art. (New...
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Aletti, Vince January 1, 2002 700+ words
Throughout his career, Irving Penn has offset the flawless chic of his fashion photographs with work that focuses on decidedly unfashionable things: skulls, cigarette...
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- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Tom Hopkinson October 9, 2009 700+ words
...discloses nothing. Irving Penn was born in 1917 in...mediocre. On returning to New York Penn was hired by another...Museum of Modern Art in New York attracted international...accompanying volume Irving Penn by the Museum's Director...Earthly Bodies: Irving ...
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- Picture from: AP Images Irving Penn October 7, 2009 700+ words
...print, flush-mounted on aluminum, by Irving Penn is shown. Penn, whose photographs revealed...scheduled to be auctioned by Christie's in New York on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Christie's, Irving Penn)
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- Picture from: AP Images Irving Penn October 7, 2009 700+ words
...print, flush-mounted on aluminum, by Irving Penn is shown. Penn, whose photographs revealed...scheduled to be auctioned by Christie's in New York on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Christie's, Irving Penn)
- Irving Penn, 92; his sparse, lustrous portraits revealed
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Mark Feeney October 8, 2009 700+ words
Irving Penn, whose photographs made...director of photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art...1977 interview with The New York Times Magazine. Mr. Penn...is, the sensibility of Irving Penn. Mr. Penn was born in...
