An example of the latter, Cuzco Children, , featuring a young brother and sister resting their hands on an upholstered stool, actually holds the world record for the price of a Penn photo at auction. Further evidence of this comes in the shots he took of nude, female torsos in For these, he bleached his prints, thereby creating a rich chiaroscuro effect about the flesh.
Irving Penn , Nude , It should be pointed out that he had a whimsical side, too. This comes across in the still-life combinations he shot in colour throughout his life. Theatre Accident, New York , , is an artfully-yet-quirkily arranged photo, featuring the contents of a handbag. Penn died in , aged 92, having continued to work even in his final years.
Irving Penn , The Poor Lovers , In , Penn was sent to Paris to photograph the haute couture collections for Vogue. He worked in a daylight studio with an old theater curtain as a backdrop, and was graced with an extraordinary model named Lisa Fonssagrives, whom he first encountered in Born in Sweden and trained as a dancer, she was one of the most sought-after fashion models of the time, with a sophisticated understanding of form and posture.
During this time, Penn also worked on a project inspired by a tradition of old prints, photographing the "Small Trades"—butchers, bakers, workmen, and eccentrics who belonged to a disappearing world.
On these trips Penn was increasingly free to focus on what truly interested him: making portraits of people in natural light. On the early trips, he adapted existing spaces like a garage or a barn to his needs, and noted the crucial role of a neutral environment to encourage the respectful exchange he was interested in.
Eventually this led him to construct a tent studio that could be dismantled and taken from location to location. Penn felt "in this limbo [of the tent] there was for us both the possibility of contact that was a revelation to me and often, I could tell, a moving experience for the subjects themselves, who without words—by only their stance and their concentration—were able to say much that spanned the gulf between our different worlds.
Penn's work initially had an ideal outlet on the pages of Vogue , where it was finely reproduced and widely disseminated. However, in the early s, the editors began to feel that Penn's photographs were too severe for the magazine, that they "[burned] on the page.
Penn welcomed the challenges this new field offered, particularly in the areas of still life photography, and experimented with strobe lights to produce dynamic images that revolutionized the use of photography in advertising.
He constructed a set of erect angled backgrounds to shape a austere and sharp corner. Still life compositions by Irving Penn are organized groupings of objects with lines and volumes as such that they express abstract interaction. Penn focuses greatly on detail in his photographs. He has tried several techniques of printing. Most notable prints by him are in black and white since they appear crisp and clean. Enquiry Details. Enter Email Address What can we help you find?
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