A collection of photographs showcasing Irving Penn's 70-year career in capturing fashion on film. Art Director Single Oriental Poppy, New York, 1968 Dye transfer print, 1987 16 7⁄8 × 21 1⁄8 in. (42.9 ...

This year marks legendary photographer Irving Penn's centennial. To celebrate his life's work, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is opening an exhibit featuring more than 200 of Penn's ...

Here is a true story that characterizes the perfectionism of Irving Penn, who died yesterday at the age of 92: after being presented with 500 lemons from which to select the singular best of the bunch ...

Penn’s work reached an early apotheosis in the ’40s and ’50s, those post-war years which W. H. Auden termed the “Age of Anxiety,” and Penn’s eye was correspondingly exacting, almost existentialist. By ...

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 ...

Betsy Broun, director of the American Art Museum, grew up in a small town in Kansas. When she saw the photographs of women in Vogue -- with their pinched waists and impersonal expressions — "it never ...

Irving Penn, whose photographs revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether he was shooting celebrity portraits, fashion, still life or remote places of the world, died Wednesday at his Manhattan ...

Irving Penn Bee (A), New York, 1995 Fuji Crystal Archive print mounted to Plexiglas 21-1/2" × 24" (54.6 cm × 61 cm), image 25-1/2" × 28" (64.8 cm × 71.1 cm), paper and mount signed, titled, dated and ...

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 ...