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  1. Fashion. Throughout Penn's long career at Vogue, fashion was an essential part of his assignments.In the 1940s, using white paper backdrops and striking compositions to emphasize form, he introduced a concise style to fashion photography that departed from the ornate settings that had defined the genre.

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      A gallery featuring a selection of Irving Penn's fashion...

  2. www.artnet.com › artists › irving-pennIrving Penn - Artnet

    Irving Penn was an American photographer known for both his commercial and fine art work. View Irving Penn’s 3,453 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.

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  3. Oct 23, 2015 · Penn’s portraits and fashion photographs defined elegance in the 1950s, yet throughout his career he also transformed mundane objects—storefront signs, food, cigarette butts, street debris—into memorable images of unexpected, often surreal, beauty.

  4. The most comprehensive retrospective to date of the work of the great American photographer Irving Penn (1917–2009), this exhibition marks the centennial of the artist's birth.

  5. Oct 26, 2020 · A guide to photographer Irving Penn, famed for his Vogue covers, still-lifes, and portraits of celebrities

  6. In 2009, Penn died in New York, at the age of 92. During his lifetime, he established The Irving Penn Foundation, which grew out of the studio and whose devotion to Penn's legacy is derived from contact with his remarkable spirit. Official biography of photographer Irving Penn, with images.

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  8. Apr 20, 2017 · One of the show’s greatest moments is the divided gallery that starts with a cluster of the portraits of Peruvians that Penn shot over three days in December 1948 in a borrowed studio in Cuzco.