Irving Penn
Plainfield (New Jersey, USA), 16.06.1917 - Manhattan (New York, USA), 07.10.2009
He grew up in a family of Jewish and Russian descent and was the younger brother of the famous filmmaker Arthur Penn. At eighteen, he enrolled in the drawing, painting, graphic and industrial arts course at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art. For four years he took the course taught by Alexey Brodovitch, editor-in-chief of "Harper's Bazar Magazine." In 1938 he managed to work as art director at Junior League Magazine. At age twenty-five he quit his job and left for Mexico where he began painting with the goal of becoming a painter. Here Penn travels extensively and falls in love with the landscapes of South America; it is at this juncture that he approaches photography.
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Irving Penn
Objects for the printed page
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, 2001
Jurgen Muller Penn
pages 120
first edition
dimensions 27.5 × 22.5 cm, hardcover with jacket
language German / English
Irving Penn
Still Life
Bulfinch, Boston, New York, London, 2001
John Szarkowski
pages 144
first edition
dimensions 28.5 × 27.5 cm, hardcover with jacket
language English
ISBN 0-8212-2702-5
Irving Penn
Worlds in a Small Room
Secker & Warburg, London, UK, 1980

pages 98
dimensions 27.5 × 27.5 cm, hardcover with jacket
language English
ISBN 436-36634-7
Irving Penn
Platinum Prints
Yale University Press, New Haven and London, UK, 2005
Sarah Greenough
pages 192
first edition
dimensions 28.5 × 24.5 cm, hardcover with jacket
language English
ISBN 0-300-10906-7
Irving Penn
The work of Issey Miyake
Jonathan Cape, London, UK, 1999
Holborn Mark
pages 184
first edition
dimensions 32.2 × 28 cm, hardcover with jacket
language English
ISBN 0-224-05966-1
Irving Penn
Portraits
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, 2010

pages 80
first edition
dimensions 25 × 25 cm, hardcover
language English
ISBN 978-1-85514-417-0
Irving Penn
Dancer
Nazraeli Press, Tucson, USA, 2001

pages 72
first edition
dimensions 31 × 29 cm, hardcover
language English
ISBN 1-59005-021-5
Irving Penn
Passage
Callaway, New York, USA, 1991
Alexander Liberman
pages 300
first edition
dimensions 32 × 28 cm, hardcover with jacket
language English
ISBN 0-679-40491-0
Irving Penn
Earthly Bodies, Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-50
Bulfinch, Boston, London, New York, 2002
Maria Morris Hambourg
pages 96
first edition
dimensions 30 × 29 cm, hardcover with jacket
language English
ISBN 0-8212-2787-4