"An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap. ; 300 pages; Description: 300 p. : chiefly ill. (some col. ) ; 32 cm. A stunning retrospective that was beautifully printed by Callaway and represents a comprehensive look at Penn's career up until 1991. Subjects: Penn, Irv ..."
Fringes PaceWildensteinMacGill, Los Angeles, March 15-April 20, 1996, New York, April 11-May 11, 1996, Hamiltons, London, May 1-May 31, 1996 by IrvingPenn, Mark Haworth-Booth, Hamiltons Gallery Paperback, 20 Pages, Published 1996 by Pacewildensteinmacgill ISBN-13: 978-1-878283-62-7, ISBN: 1-878283-62-6
"Shortly before his death in July 1997 Gianni Versace finished creating "The Art of Being You," perhaps his most personal and expressive book. Paintings, drawings, and sculptures from Versace's personal collection are matched with fashion shots and couture fantasies in hundreds of playful and provocative juxtapositions. This heartfelt salute to contemporary art and the great masters of the early twentieth century demonstrates the profoun ..."
"Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; A New York Graphic Society book. Physical description: 1 v. (various pagings) : illus. (some col.) ; 32 cm. Edited by Nicholas Callaway; essays by Jay Cocks and Isamu Noguchi. Published to coincide with the exhibition "Issey Miyake A UN" at Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, ..."
IrvingPenn(1st Edition) Small Trades by Virginia Heckert, Anne Lacoste Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2009 by J. Paul Getty Museum ISBN-13: 978-0-89236-996-6, ISBN: 0-89236-996-5
"Photographer Irving Penn (b. 1917) is renowned for his innovative contributions to portrait, still life, and fashion photography, and a career that has spanned more than six decades at Vogue magazine. In 1950, Vogue assigned Penn to photograph workers in Paris, and thus his monumental work The Small Trades began. Created in 1950 and 1951 in Paris, London, and New York, The Small Trades consists of portraits of skilled trades people dres ..."
Inventive Paris Clothes 1909-1939(1st Edition) A Photographic Essay by IrvingPenn Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1977 by Thames & Hudson Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-500-01159-1, ISBN: 0-500-01159-1
"Photographs of pre-World War II fashions by Poiret, Vionnet, Alix, les Callot Soeurs, Molyneux, Paquin, Chanel, and Schiaparelli, are accompanied by historical and social commentaries"
"Now available in paperbackIrving Penn’s photographs have become iconic documents of an erafrom his fashion and commercial editorials to his series of nudes and portraits of artists, musicians, writers, celebrities, and tribesmen of New Guinea, Peru, and Morocco. Originally published in 1997 to accompany an exhibition celebrating the Irving Penn Collection and Archives at the Art Institute of Chicago, this book examines Penn’s remarkab ..."
"In a career that spans more than fifty years, photographer Irving Penn has created some of the most arresting portraits, influential fashion studies, and provocative still lifes of the twentieth century. Although much of his work was undertaken for reproduction in magazines, since the early 1960s he has also made a limited number of platinum/palladium prints of his most celebrated photographs. A meticulous craftsman, Penn has experiment ..."
"On assignment for Vogue in the 1950s and 1960s, Penn (1917-2009) traveled the world as an "ambulant studio photographer", setting up a tent and photographing the people of Cuzco, Crete, Extremadura, Dahomey, Cameroon, San Francisco, Nepal, New Guinea, and Morocco. There is as well his photo-essay on the "small trades" of Paris, London and NYC. A photo-book masterpiece of the late 20th century. Cloth-bound hardcover in a pictorial dust ..."
"Trained as an artist, Irving Penn began photographing for "Vogue" in the 1940s, going on to become a versatile and accomplished image-maker. His photographs vary from portraits of the native peoples of Peru, New Guinea and Morocco to those of artists and writers, from stylish fashion editorials to nudes, and from still lifes of trash to gravity-defying still-lifes of Clinique cosmetics. This retrospective showcases 90 images traversing ..."
"Drawn from a career spanning seven decades, Irving Penn Portraits presents thirty photographs of renowned personalities by one of the most distinguished photographers of the 20th century. With an essay by curator Magdalene Keaney, Irving Penn Portraits is the first book to focus exclusively on Penn’s portraiture and his contributions to the genre. From Penn’s early work of the 1940s to recent images made in 21st century, Irving Penn ..."
"Every five years or thereabouts, the renowned Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco finds itself with a number of unrelated works of photography that stand out as special, and which ultimately get collected in one of the gallery's award-winning and sought-after quintannual publications. These publications, every one of which has been a masterpiece of photography publishing, and swiftly becomes a rarity, constitute a kind of ultimate connois ..."
Seductions by IrvingPenn Paperback, Published by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-095029-3, ISBN: 0-06-095029-3
""Out of the Dark Room" comprises a selection of more than 150 works drawn from the exceptional collection of modern and contemporary photographs of Irish-American collector David Kronn, which he has pledged to the Irish Museum of Modern Art in its entirety. As diverse as photography itself the collection traces some of the key developments in twentieth century photography's approach to architecture, landscape and portraiture whilst also ..."
"Irving Penn. Testo di John Szarkowski. 156 fotografie in bianco e nero e colori di Irving Penn 4to. pp. 216. . Molto buono (Very Good). . Ristampa (Reprinted). ."
"When Richard Avedon died on October 1st, 2004, he left an extraordinary collection of photographs that spans two centuries and reflects an eye attuned equally to masterworks and mug shots. Few had seen the private collection with which he surrounded himself in his apartment on East 75th Street in New York. These photographs, assembled over five decades, are the subject of Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Collection of Richard A ..."
"Irving Penn, though well-known as one of the 20th-century's master photographers, was originally trained as a painter. In 1997 he unearthed a series of his own abstract, mechanistic drawings made between 1939 and 1942, before he began to take photographs. Tying them together with a narrative about travelers to earth, The Astronomers Plan a Voyage to Earth is a lavishly produced artist's book--a children's story, written for adults. 36 p ..."
"The Fraenkel Gallery celebrates its 20th anniversary with a special exhibition and corresponding catalogue entitled 20Twenty. Including works by 68 photographers and spanning the history of the medium, this project focuses on masterworks as well as entirely unknown photographs by anonymous practitioners. The artists include Arbus, Brassai, Cornell, Duchamp, Eggleston, Kertesz, LeWitt, Man Ray, Modotti, Rodchenko, Ruscha, Stieglitz, Stra ..."