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    Irving Penn (1917-2009) was an influential American photographer known for his fashion photography in Vogue magazine and portraits. He studied under influential art directors and developed his unique style. Penn's first assignment for Vogue in 1943 was a cover photograph, beginning his career there producing over 150 covers. Known for his nudes and portraits, Penn sought to portray the truth and diversity of his subjects. He received the prestigious Hasselblad Award and helped broaden representations of human subjects in fashion photography.

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    Irving Penn (1917-2009) was an influential American photographer known for his fashion photography in Vogue magazine and portraits. He studied under influential art directors and developed his unique style. Penn's first assignment for Vogue in 1943 was a cover photograph, beginning his career there producing over 150 covers. Known for his nudes and portraits, Penn sought to portray the truth and diversity of his subjects. He received the prestigious Hasselblad Award and helped broaden representations of human subjects in fashion photography.

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    Irving Penn (1917-2009) was an influential American photographer known for his fashion photography in Vogue magazine and portraits. He studied under influential art directors and developed his unique style. Penn's first assignment for Vogue in 1943 was a cover photograph, beginning his career there producing over 150 covers. Known for his nudes and portraits, Penn sought to portray the truth and diversity of his subjects. He received the prestigious Hasselblad Award and helped broaden representations of human subjects in fashion photography.

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    Irving Penn

    Amber Ben Shushan

    Important Dates
    Born June 16, 1617 in New Jersey- Died in 2009

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    Influences
    Mr. Penn worked for and collaborated with two of the 20th centurys most inventive
    and influential magazine art directors, Alexey Brodovitch and Alexander Liberman.
    Mr. Penn was an unpaid design assistant for Brodovitch in the summers of 1937
    and 38 at Harpers Bazaar, the most provocative fashion magazine of the day. But
    it was under Liberman, at Vogue, that Mr. Penn forged his career as a
    photographer.

    Influences contd.
    As a student at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia
    (now the University of the Arts) from 1934 to 1938, Mr. Penn studied drawing,
    painting and graphic and industrial design. His most influential teacher was
    Brodovitch, who was familiar with the vanguard of European art and design.
    Mr. Penn was a freelance designer and illustrator for Harpers Bazaar and other
    clients. He also bought a camera and began to photograph Manhattan storefronts
    and signs. In 1940 he inherited Brodovitchs position as director of advertising
    design for Saks Fifth Avenue, but within a year he decided to go to Mexico to be a
    painter.

    Where it all started


    Mr. Penns first assignment was to supervise the design of Vogues covers.
    Sketching several possible photographic scenes, he was unable to interest the
    staff photographers in taking them, so he took to the photo studio himself, at
    Libermans suggestion. The first result was a color still-life photograph of a glove,
    a pocketbook and other accessories, published as the cover of Vogue on Oct. 1,
    1943. Mr. Penns photographs appeared on more than 150 Vogue covers over the
    next 50 years.

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    Award
    He received the Hasselblad award, given to photographers to make great
    achievements in their photographic career.
    The Hasselblad name has been linked with cameras almost since the early days
    of photography itself. First merely selling, then producing the tools through which
    vision is captured

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    Subject Matter
    Nudes: Initially, Penn photographed slim models in poses where they twisted or
    contorted their bodies when lying down or standing against walls. He soon
    switched, however, to photographing the larger, heavier models who figured in the
    majority of the final printed images.
    Portraits: Penn created photographic profiles of stars in music, dance,
    performance, art, and literature
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    What is Penn trying to communicate?


    Since he often worked for magazines, the goal of his work was to narrow the line
    between fashion and art, and he also wanted to help sell the items he
    photographed.

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    Significant Contributions
    He contributed to the diversity of human subjects by photographing make different
    shapes and sizes of people.
    Because of this, the Irving Penn foundation was started to appreciate his legacy
    and to preserve his work

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    Quotes by Penn

    Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I
    'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait th
    at is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

    Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. Th
    ey say the photographs burn on the page . After some years, I began to understand that what they
    wanted of me was simply a nice, sweet, clean-looking image of a lovely young woman.

    Quotes about Irving Penn


    Whether Penn was shooting a nude, a glove or Truman Capote, he honored the
    truth of his subjects at a particular moment. - Lynn Hirschberg (New York Times)

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    Geographic Places Where Photos Were Taken


    Since he took photos for Vogue Magazine, he often shot in New York.
    He also traveled to Mexico once to shoot there.

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    Bibliography
    http://www.hamiltonsgallery.com/artists/27-irving-penn/biography/
    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/arts/design/08penn.html?_r=0
    http://www.hasselblad.com/inspiration/our-story/hasselblad-history
    http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/IrvingPennArchives/portraits
    http://irvingpenn.org/
    http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/i/irving_penn.html
    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/magazine/27Penn-t.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FPenn%2C%20Irving&action=click&cont
    entCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=9&pgtype=collection&_r=0

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