.: Irving Penn :. photography

I recently discovered Irving Penn while doing research for a Slovak photographer which I will showcase in a future article of the series. Irving was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1917 to a family of Russian Jews. He attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art from 1934 to 1938. He studied under Alexey Brodovitch drawing and painting. In the 1950's he started his own studio in New York and began making advertising photographs. Around the same time he married model Lisa Fonssagrives.

Irving Penn / 16 June 1917 - 7 October 2009
Parents / Herry Pen and Sonia Greenberg
Spouse / Lisa Fonssagrives (1950)
Children / Tom Penn (1952)
School / Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art
           period / 1934- 1938
           professors / Alexey Brodovitch

He is best known for his fashion photographs done for Vogue magazine however he also pursued different themes. For example his interesting series of celebrity portraits or his still life works.

Nadja Auermann

1947 - Salad Ingredients

1947 - Salvador Dali in New York 20 February

1947 - Theater Accident - for Vogue

1948 - Marcel Duchamp - New York

1949 - Unknown title

1950 - Balenciaga

1950 - Locomotive fireman - London

1960 - John Kennedy

1967 - Hells Angel doug - San Francisco

1986 - Miles Davis

1986 - Paulina Porizkova - Vogue