this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.

Monday, October 12, 2009


















Irving Penn (June 16 1917 - Oct. 7 2009) 

Last week, aged 92 years, an artist of rare genius, passed away. Irving Penn, was an iconic American photographer. Renowned for his uniquely elegant sense of line and form, virtuoso command of natural, classical lighting, and perhaps most notably - his wonderful ability to express the commonplace in the most remarkable of ways.
Irving Penn worked succesfully for decades for all the shiniest magazines in New York and Paris as a studio illustrator, but he was perhaps - as revered artistically for his personal - more private work, than for the brilliance of his commercial fashion and product photography.

Instantly identifiable, Penn's images, more than any other photographer of his generation defined studio photography, and he has had an indelible influence on each
succeeding generation of photographers that were fortunate enough to know his work. Irving Penn is irreplaceable, a true visionary, rest in peace.
his name is linked, please read


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