After much determined negotiation, London’s National Portrait Gallery has managed to secure over one hundred of Irving Penn’s portraits from the closely guarded Penn archive and other collections around the world. Simply presented, these luminous, silvery black-and-white prints make for an unsurpassed body of portraiture which celebrate Penn’s astounding career.
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Remembering Irving Penn 1917-2009: The Revolutionary Fashion Photographer
December 28, 2009 – 9:00 am
“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.””- Irving Penn
Penn’s uncanny ability to make simplicity mesmerizing while glamorizing the “everyday,” transcended fashion photography into the realm of art. He revealed the importance of capturing [...]
