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Article: Pursuing perfection; Irving Penn's photos.(ARTS & CULTURE)(PHOTOGRAPHY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 18, 2005
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Byline: J. Ross Baughman, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
On leave from his life in Manhattan as a fashion photographer, the tall, elegant man named Irving Penn spent an extra week in the mountains of Peru. Within a few days, Mr. Penn found himself beckoning two little peasants into his borrowed studio, stepping with them through the northern light pouring onto the stone floor.
Other folks in Cuzco had been there the week before, willing to pay for their family portraits. Now, though, during the Christmas holidays of 1948, this odd American had sublet the place and actually would pay them to stand in front of his camera.
Mr. Penn spent extra time on two ...