|
|
Article: IRVING PENN
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 9, 2009
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 2009 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
Photographer whose classical simplicity transformed the pages of
'Vogue' magazine
A great portraitist - they are very few - is a sort of sorcerer
who seems beyond resemblance." This tribute to "Penn", by which
single name he was always known, came from Maurice Goudeket, husband
of the legendary writer Colette. On her 80th birthday, he records,
"several famous photographers came to the apartment. For a long time
now Colette had hardly moved from her bed, so the portraits seldom
differed. But an American came, named Penn, and took a stupefying
photograph. It discloses all that Colette wished to conceal... Who
are the devils favourable to photographers, and what prescience
guided Penn?"
The ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: Irving Penn's Nudes at the Metropolitan
The Hunter Envoy;
February 19, 2002 ;
616 words
... ... still life and fashion work, Irving Penn expresses his art through photography ... female nude. Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-50, which is ... July 27, 2003. A selection of Irving Penn's more recent nudes are also ...
|
|