Whether capturing a primly gloved hand, an oozing wheel of cheese, or the wrinkled butt of a cigarette, photographer Irving Penn’s work betrayed a studied regard for tone, shape, and composition. From ...

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 ...

Fashion and celebrity photographer Irving Penn died Wednesday at age 92. William Stapp, the founding curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, remembers Penn. From NPR News, this is ALL ...

This work is from a sold out edition of only 12 prints. Irving Penn was an American photographer known for both his commercial and fine art work. Using both large format and 35mm cameras, he regularly ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. “Photography is a mass medium available to anyone. A few geniuses, like ...

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 ...

Head in Ice by Irving Penn, New York, 2002, printed 2003 Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation, © Condé Nast Woman in Moroccan Palace ...

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 ...