The most evident thing about Irving Penn one sees in the exhibition of his work opening at today the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the photographer's complete passion for humanity. His obsession ...

Photographer Irving Penn died Wednesday morning in Manhattan at the age of 92. In February 2008, Philip Gefter profiled Penn, best known for his fashion photography and portraiture. The article is ...

The BCMA is excited to announce the recent acquisition of sixteen photographs by Irving Penn (American, 1917–2009). These photographs are a gift of Robert Freson, formerly studio assistant and manager ...

IN 2017, when New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art staged a major exhibition honoring the 100th birthday of the late photographer Irving Penn, its director, Thomas P. Campbell, cited Penn as ...

Fashion and celebrity photographer Irving Penn died Wednesday in his Manhattan home at the age of 92, according to his photo assistant Roger Krueger. He is remembered for creating striking, ...

Irving Penn was one of the 20th century’s pre-eminent portraitists, defining perhaps more than any other photographer the elegant visual style of American fashion magazines like Vogue and Harper’s ...

The street photograph above casts a beguiling look into a New York City beauty shop window. Image courtesy of American Art Museum New York, 1939. Gelatin silver print ...

Celebrated for his visually arresting photographs, Irving Penn’s images are akin to moments frozen in time—many of his images seem so real it’s as if you could reach out and feel, smell, or taste them ...

Irving Penn (1917–2009), known for his iconic fashion, portrait and still life images that appeared in Vogue magazine, ranks as one of the foremost photographers of the 20th century. “Irving Penn: ...

CAMBRIDGE — For six decades, two names dominated portrait and fashion photography: Richard Avedon and Irving Penn. Imagine the crowd that would have gathered in the Condé Nast Building if they’d ...

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