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	USA Today (Magazine): Irving Penn: a half-century of masterful photog... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When Penn began doing celebrity portraits as a young and relatively unknown photographer, the face-to-face confrontation with his famous subjects was so unnerving to him that he wanted to find something else, besides the camera and himself, for them to react to.
		Penn's approach to the nudes was completely different from his commercial efforts, for here the unique quality of the individual photographic print, rather than reproducibility on the printed page, was his concern.
		Penn does his own printing in rigorous processes such as platinum palladium and selenium-toned silver gelatin, and he devises new techniques for realizing visions that no one except him has had yet.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:20301232&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (1785 words)

	Irving Penn
		Penn has won renown as much in editorial photography as in advertising illustration, and his innovations especially in portraiture and still life have set him apart stylistically.
		Irving Penn was born June 16, 1917 in Plainfield, N.J. Educated in public schools, he enrolled at the age of 18 in a four-year course at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art, where Alexey Brodovitch taught him advertising design.
		Penn soon demonstrated his extraordinary capacity for work, versatility, inventiveness, and imagination in a number of fields including editorial illustration, advertising, photojournalism, portraits, still life, travel, and television.
	www.photo-seminars.com /Fame/irving_penn.htm (919 words)

	Irving Penn, A Career in Photography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Irving Penn, A Career in Photography 954253385 953938800 Houston USA Museum of Fine Art http://www.mfah.org 954253385.jpg 960155999 o Museum of Fine Arts The career of Irving Penn (born 1917), a leading American celebrity portraitist and fashion photographer, is examined in this exhibition.
		Irving Penn, A Career in Photography The career of Irving Penn (born 1917), a leading American celebrity portraitist and fashion photographer, is examined in this exhibition.
		Penn has, in fact, become a master printer, revitalizing the platinum-palladium process in which photochemicals are painted onto drawing paper, providing the photographer with a high degree of control.
	www.undo.net /artinpress/953938800.954253385.html (459 words)

	Irving Penn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Penn has his own way of looking at things and not all of his photos could be called aristocratic in nature.
		Penn also photographed still life objects including found objects with great detail, clarity and unusual arrangements.
		Penn spent many years doing fashion photography for Vogue magazine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irving_Penn (585 words)

	Press Release: Still Life: Irving Penn Photographs 1938-2000 by Irving Penn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It was a photograph of a brown leather bag, beige scarf and gloves, lemons, oranges, and a huge topaz, for the cover of a 1943 issue of Vogue, that launched Irving Penn's career as a photographer and began his fascination with still life.
		There has been in Penn's work, from the beginning, a taste for the stringent, the attenuated, the ascetic, the austere." Certainly Irving Penn will always be one of the most widely recognized and extolled contemporary photographers.
		Irving Penn, born in 1917, has created an influential body of portraits, still life, and fashion photography.
	www.twbookmark.com /books/24/0821227025/press_release.html (362 words)

	News-Star OnlineRecent photos by legendary Irving Penn on exclusive view 07/13/04
		But when it's the muse of photographer Irving Penn, whose 32 photographs of flattened chewing gum on New York City asphalt are on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the gooey circles are transformed from detritus to mysterious -- even beautiful -- works of art.
		Photographed through Penn's lens in great detail and enlarged to many times their actual size, some resemble polished stones in a stream, islands seen from overhead, ghostly faces and skulls, embryos and galaxies hovering in space.
		Penn studied in the 1930s at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now known as The University of the Arts) and started out as a painter.
	www.news-star.com /stories/071304/lif_5.shtml (571 words)

	Fotolia Blog US - Irving Penn Photography
		The works of Irving Penn a master of photography are on display at the National Gallery of Art.
		Irving Penn is one of my favorite photographers and I highly recommend spending the time to see this 83+ print exhibit.
		Penn's photographs are in the collections of major museums in America and throughout the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which honored him with a retrospective exhibition in 1984.
	blog.fotolia.com /us/archive/001018.html (1390 words)

	Irving Penn -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Irving Penn studied under Alexy Brodovitch at the Philadelphia Museum
		Penn also photographed (A painting of inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers) still life objects including (additional info and facts about found objects) found objects with great detail, clarity and unusual arrangements.
		Penn spent many years doing fashion photography for (additional info and facts about Vogue magazine) Vogue magazine.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/ir/irving_penn.htm (518 words)

	AllRefer.com - Irving Penn (Photography, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Irving Penn 1917–;, American photographer, brother of Arthur Penn, b.
		In portraiture, Penn uses plain backgrounds and natural light and is famously adept at capturing the essence of his sitter's personality.
		As beautifully composed as his figural work, Penn's still lives form a kind of collective memento mori in their concentration on the ruined and the ephemeral : cigarette butts, fragments of objects, fruit pits, chewed gum, and the like.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/PennI.html (322 words)

	Irving Penn : A Career in Photography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Irving Penn: A Career in Photography is a book that examines the work and life of photographer Irving Penn. Several different writers and people associated with Penn have included text to describe their view of Penn and his life in photography.
		Irving Penn: A Career in Photography is an excellent book for anyone interested in photography, or even a professional looking for inspiration.
		The numerous illustrations of Penn's well-known corner shot were a nice surprise in the book; many of these images are very difficult to find on the internet, it was great being able to study the nuances of the portraits up close.
	e-acting.com /isbn082122459X.html (522 words)

	Books : Irving Penn: Platinum Prints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A meticulous craftsman, Penn has experimented extensively with this process in order to make prints with remarkably subtle, rich tonal ranges and luxurious textures; prints that are, in fact, the exact opposite of the more neutral reproductions of his photographs that appear in the popular press.
		The first time I saw a photography of Irving Penn was in a Brochure advertising the exhibition at the National Gallery this summer.
		Irving Penn's Platinum Prints is an inspiring and insightful look into the world of photography, and the unique style of Irving Penn. Each picture conveys a story while establishing a sense of truth and reality.
	arabiadirectory.com /0300109067/Irving_Penn_Platinum_Prints.shtml (592 words)

	Masters of Photography: Irving Penn
		In his fashion and portrait photography, Penn favored the use of a neutral backdrop of gray or white seamless paper, or alternatively, the use of constructed architectural sets which created striking effects with oblique, diving diagonals and upward tipped perspectives.
		Penn also created numerous still life compositions for the magazine: carefully orchestrated assemblages of food or objects characterized by a play of three-dimensional and two-dimensional forms.
		Using platinum and other precious metal processes, Penn has photographed urban detritus (cigarette butts, crumpled wrappers, etc.), the torsos of plump artists' models, and most recently, still lifes of skulls, bones, and construction materials.
	www.masters-of-photography.com /P/penn/penn_articles1.html (328 words)

	Irving Penn photographs, Irving Penn photography
		Irving Penn was born in Plainfield, NJ in 1917.
		Most of Penn's photographs were printed in editions of 60 or less.
		Penn used a variety of equipment - Leica and Nikon cameras, 4" x 5" or 8" x 10" Deardoff view cameras, or Rolleiflex or Hasselblad cameras.
	www.agallery.com /Pages/photographers/penn.html (211 words)

	Penn, Irving on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As beautifully composed as his figural work, Penn's still lives form a kind of collective memento mori in their concentration on the ruined and the ephemeral—cigarette butts, fragments of objects, fruit pits, chewed gum, and the like.
		Irving Penn: Whitney Museum of American Art/Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
		Irving Penn: Metropolitan museum of art; whitney museum of American art.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/PennI1.asp (615 words)

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One of the world's preeminent photographers, Irving Penn is famous for portraiture, still life, and fashion work—he is less well known as a superb photographer of the female nude.
		Penn's unconcern for conventional views, his monumental concentration on the artistic process, and his supportive relationship with his models—who became true collaborators—are evident in the pictures, which display a somatic ease, an aesthetic rigor, and an erotic warmth that are unusual in combination.
		A selection of Irving Penn's more recent nudes is on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art from January 12 through May 12, 2002.
	www.metmuseum.org /special/Irving_Penn/earthly_more.htm (731 words)

	Fraenkel Gallery: Exhibitions: Penn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition IRVING PENN circa 1948, from March 7 through April 27, 2002.
		IRVING PENN circa 1948 includes definitive portraits of Alfred Hitchcock, the Duchess of Windsor, Truman Capote, and Georgia O'Keeffe, all made from highly detailed 10 x 8 negatives.
		After more than fifty years Penn's work continues to be relevant for its great refinement of craft, for the wit and grace of its formal invention, and for its unequaled sensitivity to the quality and character of light.
	www.fraenkelgallery.com /exhibitions/e_penn.html (209 words)

	Irving Penn
		In Penn's case, it is the use of printing some of the images in this exhibition on platinum paper.
		A close examination of Irving Penn's wide range of work allows the viewer to confront that old prejudice that commercial work cannot be "Art." The pursuit of art must be done outside the business world where the influence of money somehow corrupts artistic vision.
		Irving Penn's work is always worth a second or third look.
	artscenecal.com /ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles1999/Articles1299/IPennA.html (631 words)

	The Beautiful Peoples
		Penn seems to have started with a sure sense of what beauty is and then embarked on finding it in unusual places, from the fierce visages of warriors in New Guinea to cigarette butts and smashed paper cups plucked from the pavement of Fifth Avenue.
		"Irving Penn: Platinum Prints," organized by Sarah Greenough, is occasioned by the artist's gift to the National Gallery of 102 photographs and collages, most of which are on view in the exhibition.
		Penn thus was required to make enlarged negatives of his best work, discover the right formula of metals for each image, and often to coat, expose and develop the paper multiple times to build up the density to a level that gave the print a full range of tones.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/17/AR2005061700763.html (1375 words)

	Irving Penn: Photographs of Dahomey 1967
		Irving Penn is one of the most noteworthy photographers of the 20th century, best known for his inimitable fashion and portrait photographs, as well as his unique still lifes.
		Thirty-five years after their publication in Vogue, Irving Penn presents these portraits of tribal people and his photographs of Legba altars in book form for the first time.
		With texts by leading anthropologists and Irving Penn himself, this volume is an extraordinary photographic document of African culture, from a master recorder of our time.
	www.artbook.com /3775714499.html (209 words)

	Irving Penn -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Penn, the brother of the motion-picture director Arthur Penn, initially intended to become a painter, but at age 26 he took a job designing photographic covers for the fashion magazine Vogue.
		Her defining images were the ones in which Irving Penn captured her seated in a café chewing pensively on a string of pearls and the Erwin Blumenfeld Jan. 1, 1950, Vogue cover, which featured her...
		Focuses on Penn's interactions with Native Americans, his planning of Philadelphia, and his image as mythologized in the art and sculpture of the U.S. Capitol.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9059076 (575 words)

	Irving Penn show in DC
		I saw the Irving Penn: Platinum Prints exhibit at the west wing of the National Gallery of Art in DC over the weekend.
		Penn was also not affraid to change his eyes and that's not insignificant considering that he was a very successful commercial photographer.
		Penn was only Penn. Everything happens in it's own time and art comes from artists and not things or places or lab techs or portrait sitters.
	www.largeformatphotography.info /lfforum/topic/503433.html (1902 words)

	The Friends of Photography \| Ansel Adams Center
		Penn's images and his archives serve as a record of cultural, economic, and political trends in the second half of this century.
		A survey of Penn's career shows a unity and consistency throughout his work that is rare when approaching such a variety of subjects.
		Exploring different printing options was a paramount concern for Penn. Always striving for the best presentation of his work, he has become a master printer, revitalizing the platinum-palladium process as well as working with new techniques.
	www.friendsofphotography.org /irvingpenn.html (513 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Irving Penn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Irving Penn began his photographic career with Vogue magazine in 1943.
		Penn's subsequent work falls into a variety of categories: fashion, portraits, still lifes, nudes, travel, ethnographic studies, and street photography.
		Penn's photographs--especially his portraits of influential individuals, including actors, artists, politicians, writers, and more--serve as a record of cultural, economic, and political trends in the second half of the twentieth century.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200944/print (131 words)

	Salon.com Sex \| Irving Penn's nudes
		Think of Irving Penn as a very thirsty man. In fact, model Dorian Leigh (pal of Truman Capote and the inspiration for Holly Golightly) reports that every time she slept with Penn, in the mid-'40s, he'd gulp down bottled water afterward.
		Penn believed he and Liberman "were always searching for some delectable and seductive quality" in women.
		Penn showed a few of them once at a 1980 show, and now 53 are hanging at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (and in the pages of the book "Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-50").
	www.salon.com /sex/gallery/2002/02/01/penn (647 words)

	SFMOMA \| Exhibitions \| Exhibition Overview: Earthly Bodies
		Famous for his work in fashion, still-life, and portrait photography, Irving Penn is less well known as a superb photographer of the female nude.
		The women he chose and the ways he posed them produced nudes that were (and still are) highly unorthodox by fashion standards: their fleshy torsos are folded, twisted and stretched, with extra belly, mounded hips and puddled breasts.
		Irving Penn’s striking and unconventional female nudes — dubbed modern-day tributes to pre-Christian fertility idols — are collected in Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn’s Nudes, 1949—50.
	www.sfmoma.org /exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=96 (363 words)

	village voice > art > Irving Penn at Pace/MacGill Gallery by Vince Aletti
		With Irving Penn appearing so regularly in the pages of Vogue (see his portraits of Helmut Newton, Lee Bontecou, and Zaha Hadid in the March issue), a gallery show seems almost superfluous.
		Included among the flawlessly executed still lifes, nudes, and portraits made between 1947 and 2003 is one of the most alarming pictures yet of Karl Lagerfeld, his collar as archaic and constricting as the chastity belt in the image alongside.
		I'd hesitate to call it a self-portrait, but Penn's elegant old bird regards us with such a knowing eye, at once accusatory and understanding, that he looks like he belongs behind the camera, too.
	www.villagevoice.com /art/0408,aletti2,51273,13.html (168 words)

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