The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a major retrospective of the photographs of Irving Penn to mark the centennial of the artist’s birth. Over the course of his nearly 70-year career, Irving ...

Despite — or, perhaps, because of — the rise in artificially made images, photography is suddenly in the spotlight, in galleries in New York and beyond. By Julia Halperin The 900 items from his ...

“I myself have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument that it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel,” reads a quote from Irving Penn printed on the de Young Museum’s walls, ...

A new survey, “Irving Penn,” opening at San Francisco’s de Young Museum on Saturday (it will be up through July 21) reminds us of one crucial thing about Mr. Penn’s work: His images still resonate ...

Hells Angel (Doug), San Francisco, 1967. Gelatin silver print. Image: 18 13/16x 19 11/16 in. (47.8 x 50 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of The Irving Penn ...

The de Young in Golden Gate Park together with the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park make up the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the largest public arts institution in the city and one of the ...

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