“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 [...]
Tag Archives: Vogue
Remembering Irving Penn 1917-2009: The Revolutionary Fashion Photographer
December 28, 2009 – 9:00 am
Dictator of Style: The September Issue
September 16, 2009 – 3:17 am
Film is not very good at inhabiting the diaphanous folds of fashion. Recent reports from Venice on A Single Man, Tom Ford’s directorial debut, suggest that fashion might make a slicker transition to film. In any case, while master photographers and designers routinely gesture towards the life outside the shot – the model mid-leap caught [...]


