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Drawn from a career spanning seven decades, Irving Penn Portraits presents thirty photographs of renowned personalities by one of the most distinguished photographers of the 20th century. With an essay by curator Magdalene Keaney, Irving Penn Portraits is the first book to focus exclusively on Penn’s portraiture and his contributions to the genre. From Penn’s early work of the 1940s to recent images made in 21st century, Irving Penn Portraits honors a selection of photographs with reproductions of superb quality.
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Irving Penn: Small Trades

by: Virginia Heckert, Anne Lacoste
Beautiful work - Very well printed and binded - It's very interesting to see that piece of work made in a very simple way, only with available natural light and to compare gelatin silver prints with platinum ones.
One of the most interesting Penn work.
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Still Life : Irving Penn Photographs, 1938-2000

by: Irving Penn, John Szarkowski
Irving Penn has been making still life photographs for many decades, and this collection is a good representation of his work. Elegant black and white compositions of the 1940s, detailed groupings since the 1980s, and his in-your-face color that we see frequently in Vogue today, there is some of everything. My only complaint is this: I would like to see more of his ads for Clinique. Only two are reproduced here. There are hundreds more, and most are more interesting that the two selected for this book.
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Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-50

Maria Morris Hambourg has made us a beautiful and important book, again. She has produced a silent essay from a collection of delicate and powerful private images. Untitled photographs, beautifully printed, they speak for themselves. She writes about the photographer and puts these nudes into the context of his life and his other work. What Hambourg writes about the relationship between artist and model is authentic and enlightening. A wide range of very strong and unique work is beautifully presented here.
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