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Article: Irving Penn, 92; his sparse, lustrous portraits revealed
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 8, 2009
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Irving Penn, whose photographs made high art out of high fashion
and whose mastery of the medium extended to portraits, still lifes,
and nudes, died yesterday at his Manhattan home. He was 92.
His death was announced by his photo assistant Roger Krueger and
his brother, film director Arthur Penn. The cause was not given.
The work Mr. Penn did for Vogue in the 1940s and early `50s
transformed fashion photography. Earlier photographers, such as
Baron de Meyer and George Platt Lynes, placed couture in an
overstuffed, unreal world. Their fashion photography was as much
about decor as design. Mr. Penn's great contemporary, and sole peer,
Richard Avedon, opened up fashion, placing it in natural ...