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Irving Penn Food Actuphoto.com, France - Nov 30, 2008 Departing from the long tradition of still life painting, Irving Penn turned his own photographic eye to the subject and is heralded one of the twentieth ...

Best books … chosen by Mark Seliger The Week Magazine - Nov 7, 2008 Moments Preserved by Irving Penn (out of print). This collection of eight essays in photographs and words is Irving Penn’s tour de force of photography. ...

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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.

Vanitas: Designs

by: Gianni Versace, Lady Julia Trevelyan Oman

Gianni Versace - just the name brings to mind visions of high fashion, haute couture, incredibly beautiful fabrics swishing by on colt-like mannequins with arched eyebrows and the highest cheekbones. Vanitas: Designs is glamour between covers as it presents the designs, ready-to-wear, accessories, jewelry and costumes by Versace.

The almost 300 folio-size, full-page startlingly colorful picturers are accompanied by texts penned by Hamish Bowles, Lady Julia Trevelyan Oman, Andre Leon Talley, and Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti.

Irving Penn: A Career in Photography

by: Colin Eisler, Issey Miyake, Edmund Carpenter, Jennifer Jankauskas, Rosamond Bernier, Martin Harrison
Irving Penn: A Career in Photography is a book that examines the work and life of photographer Irving Penn. Several different writers and people associated with Penn have included text to describe their view of Penn and his life in photography. Colin Westerbeck, Issey Miyake, Martin Harrison, Edmund Carpenter, Rosamond Bernier, Colin Eisler, and Jennifer Jankauskas all contribute to the book. Writer and editor Colin Westerbeck invites the reader into the history of Irving Penn through a summary of Penn's life in his photo career.

Worlds in a Small Room

by: Irving Penn
Irving Penn takes us on a journey while he photographs the people of the world. Using a portable studio in remote locations, Irving Penn is able to capture cultures like the Kirdi of Cameroon, Nepal, Morocco, Dahomey, Crete and New Guinea. He also captured the people of New York, Paris, London, San Franscisco, and Cuzco. Irving Penn describes the different locations he visits and his most memorable experiences. Penn not only shows his passion as a photographer but as a Human being while adapting to different cultures around the world as he photographs them.

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