Irving Penn

Irving Penn

Irving Penn is an influential photographer who died in October 2009. Find more information about Irving Penn here.

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I'm hearing via email sources and twitter that the great Irving Penn has died (age, 92). ————————————————————————————————— Buying a new website? My new company, APhotoFolio.com builds portfolio websites for photographers. Irving Penn, New York, 1951. Photo by Horst Staley-Wise Gallery By Andy Grundberg, The New York Times Irving Penn, one of the 20th century's most prolific and influential photographers of fashion and the famous, whose signature blend of Read Full Story
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Irving Penn , a photographer best known for his polished fashion photography for Vogue magazine, passed away in his New York apartment today at 92. His brother Arthur delivered the news to the press, but his cause of death has not been revealed. Marlene Dietrich photographed by Irving Penn. According to the LA Times , Penn started working for Vogue in 1943, managing to bridge the gap between commercial and artistic, editorial photography. He was famous for using the same technique in most of his photographs, portraying the subject simply, against a bare background, with little or no props in the shot. As a ... Read Full Story
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If you've ever ogled the glossy pages of Vogue , chances are you're familiar with Irving Penn's work. The groundbreaking fashion photographer died yesterday in his Manhattan home at age 92. Read Full Story
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If you've ever ogled the glossy pages of Vogue, chances are you're familiar with Irving Penn's work. The groundbreaking fashion photographer died yesterday in his Manhattan home at age 92.... Read Full Story
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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 reprinted below.[more ...] Sponsored Topics: Photographer - Manhattan - Irving Penn - Photography - Fashion photography  
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I've always loved Irving Penn's still life photos the best. Gnarled cigarettes in velvety silver have as much character as a his famous image of Picasso's face; frozen food looks geometric like the third stage of cubism (after analytic and synthetic comes organic, of course). NY Times obit here. Irving Penn, Picasso at La Californie, Cannes, France, 1957 Irving Penn, Cigarette 17, New York, 1972 Irving Penn, Frozen Foods, New York, 1977...  
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Irving Penn, an American photography icon known for his photographs of fashion and celebrities, died yesterday in New York at age 92. Although Penn was best known for his work in Vogue, another Conde Nast magazine, The New Yorker http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2004-09-27#folio=136"> http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2004-09-27#folio=136"> http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2004-09-27#folio=136">published a portfolio of his work five years ago...  
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Elegant was the word for Irving Penn, the fashion photographer who died at 92. London Telegraph obituary "He never stopped working," said Peter MacGill, a longtime friend whose Pace-MacGill Galleries in Manhattan represented Penn's work. "He would go back...  
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In one self-portrait made after the death of his wife of 42 years, "the artist is unrecognizable. He presents himself as a befuddled, perplexed married man" transformed by his loss. In another, "his face now seems to melt before us, the one eye left intact looking heavenward. What sound is coming from his abject, open mouth?"...  
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The legendary photographer died yesterday at the age of 92. The Daily Beast's Philip Gefter recalls his genius. Plus, VIEW OUR GALLERY of Penn's iconic images. Here is a true story that characterizes the perfectionism of Irving Penn, who died...  
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American photographer Irving Penn, known for his famous images ranging from fashion and celebrities to ordinary people and still life, has died. Irving Penn, one of the most legendary photographers of the 20th century, died on Wednesday morning at ...  
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The great American photographer Irving Penn has died. Penn, who was 92, was one of the towering figures of American photography, a master of fashion photography, portraiture and lusciously detailed still life. Along with the late Richard Avedon he was the king of a certain kind of supremely lustrous American magazine photography [...]  
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Twitter Roundup: Goodbye to Legendary Fashion Photographer Irving Penn Wall Street Journal (blog) Goodbyes and eulogies started on Twitter late last night and continue through the morning. @womensweardaily (Women's Wear Daily): Master photographer Irving ..  
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By VERENA DOBNIK Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Irving Penn, whose photographs revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether he was shooting celebrity portraits, fashion, still life or remote places of the world, died Wednesday at his Manhattan home. He was 92. The death was announced . . .Full Story  
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