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Irving Penn: Small Trades
Photographer Irving Penn (b. 1917) is renowned for his innovative contributions to portrait, still life, and fashion photography, and a career that has spanned more than six decades at Vogue magazine.
Hardcover, 272 pages
Published
September 9th 2009
by Getty Publications
(first published 2009)
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In the introduction to this book, Virginia A. Heckert and Anne Lacoste write about the background of these pictures, noting that the project was one that Penn had "long envisioned based on his admiration of Eugène Atget's photographs of workers and the larger, centuries-old tradition of representing the petits-métiers, or "small trades"" (p 10). Penn had two helpers who worked to find potential subjects and bring them to Penn's studio, dressed in their work clothes and carryi...more
In Praise of the Common Man
Irving Penn is an established giant in the field of photography having supplied the editors of Vogue Magazine with his elegant fashion photography for over fifty years. While many would question such a famous glamour photographer's interest in the beauty of the common man, in this excellent volume, a catalogue from the current J. Paul Getty Museum exhibition curated by Virginia A. Heckert and Anne Lacoste, evidence is presented and takes a memory...more
Irving Penn is an established giant in the field of photography having supplied the editors of Vogue Magazine with his elegant fashion photography for over fifty years. While many would question such a famous glamour photographer's interest in the beauty of the common man, in this excellent volume, a catalogue from the current J. Paul Getty Museum exhibition curated by Virginia A. Heckert and Anne Lacoste, evidence is presented and takes a memory...more
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