Irving Penn: A Career in Photography

Irving Penn; Colin Westerbeck

Boston, New York, and Toronto

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The Art Institute of Chicago in association with Bulfinch Press and Little, Brown and Company

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1998

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Second Printing.

31cm x 25cm. 192 pages, illustrations, some colour. Black cloth, blind lettering, pictorial jacket.

Irving Penn (1917 – 2009) was an influential American photographer. This survey shows examples of his fashion photography, still lifes, nudes and portraits, including some from his time in New Guinea and Morocco. In 1995 Penn donated his professional archives to the Art institute of Chicago and this was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the archive 22 November 1997, to 1 February, 1998.

Very minor soiling to top edge. Near Fine Condition.

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