Download or read book Still Life written by Irving Penn and published by Bulfinch. This book was released on 2001-09-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irving Penn is one of the leading photographers of the 20th century. His elegant and innovative photographs are the subject of this volume. It includes some 200 images.
Download or read book Irving Penn written by Irving Penn and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a catalog of an exhibition of photographs focusing on blue collar workers.
Download or read book Irving Penn written by Maria Morris Hambourg and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irving Penn (1917-2009) was among the most esteemed and influential photographers of the twentieth century. Over the course of a nearly seventy-year career, he mastered a pared-down aesthetic of studio photography that is distinguished for its meticulous attention to composition, nuance, and detail. This indispensable book features one of the largest selections of Penn's photographers ever compiled–nearly 300 in all–including famous and beloved images as well as works that have never been published. Celebrating the centennial of Penn's birth, this lavish volume spans the entirety of his groundbreaking career. An enlightening introduction situates his work in the context of the various artistic, social, and political environments and events that affected the content of his photographs. Lively essays acquaint readers with Penn's primary subjects and campaigns, including early documentary scenes and imagery; portraits of cultural figures and celebrities; fashion; female nudes; peoples of Peru, Dahomey (Benin), New Guinea, and Morocco; and still lifes. Rounding out the book are discussions of Penn's advertising pictures and his painstaking printing processes, as well as an illustrated chronology. Irving Penn: Centennialis essential for any fan of this artist's work or of the history of twentieth-century photography.
Download or read book Irving Penn written by Merry A. Foresta and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible overview of the work of legendary American photographer Irving Penn Famous for his fashion portraits and experimentation with still life images, Irving Penn (1917-2009) ranks as one of the foremost photographers of the 20th century. In an illustrious career that spanned nearly 70 years, Penn was a master of both black-and-white and color photography, and his revival of platinum printing in the 1960s and 1970s was a catalyst for significant change in the art world. Drawing from the extensive holdings of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, including a major gift from The Irving Penn Foundation, this magnificent catalogue compiles 161 of Penn's iconic images, including a number of unpublished works. Beautifully designed and illustrated, Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty accompanies the first retrospective exhibition of Penn's work in nearly 20 years and features photographs from all stages of his career, including street scenes from the late 1930s, celebrity portraits, Parisian fashion photographs, and more private studio images. Merry A. Foresta's captivating essay introduces this photographer to a younger generation and delves into Penn's use of photography to respond to social and cultural change, speaking to the depths of human existence. Distributed for the Smithsonian American Art Museum in association with The Irving Penn Foundation Exhibition Schedule: Smithsonian American Art Museum (10/23/15-03/20/16) Dallas Museum of Art (04/15/16-08/14/16) Lesley University, College of Art and Design, Cambridge, MA (09/10/16-12/16/16) Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (02/24/17-05/21/17) Wichita Art Museum (09/30/17-01/07/18)
Download or read book Irving Penn Portraits written by Magdalene Keaney and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirty photographs by Irving Penn featuring actors, intellectuals, and other notable figures from his time.
Download or read book Irving Penn written by John Szarkowski and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most distinguished practitioners of portrait and fashion photography of the mid-twentieth century, Irving Penn's work is identified by its refinement of craft, by the wit and grace of its formal invention, and by its sensitivity to the quality and character of light. Backed by Vogue magazine, Penn brought a classic economy and concentration to the overblown world of fashion photography, to portraits of artists, writers, and theater people, and to ethnographic studies of style and ornament in little-known corners of West Africa, Nepal, Peru, and New Guinea. This book, published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, is the first comprehensive retrospective of Penn's work. The essay by John Szarkowski follows a brilliant career, from its art-school beginnings to the provocative still lifes, photographs of cigarette butts and street detritus--works of eloquence and classical rectitude, made from the least consequential of subject matter.--From publisher description.
Download or read book Worlds in a Small Room written by Irving Penn and published by Penguin Putnam. This book was released on 1974 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Irving Penn written by Irving Penn and published by Pace/Macgill Gallery. This book was released on 1999 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Irving Penn written by Irving Penn and published by Bulfinch Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trained as an artist, Irving Penn began photographing for "Vogue" in the 1940s--and went on to become one of the most versatile and accomplished image-makers of the last 50 years. His photographs have become documents of the century, from his portraits of native peoples to his gravity defying still lifes of Clinque cosmetics. This landmark retrospective showcases 90 of Penn's standout images.
Download or read book Passage written by Irving Penn and published by Alfred a Knopf Incorporated. This book was released on 1991 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive retrospective of America's preeminent photographer. This book reveals for the first time Penn's own view of his extraordinary and diverse career. Accompanied by his fascinating and insightful commentaries and examples of his portraits, still lifes, and fashion drawings. Printed in 11 colors with 468 black-and-white and color plates.
Download or read book IRVING PENN PB written by Merry A. Foresta and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The portraits include Merce Cunningham, Alfred Hitchcock Salvador Dali, Georgia O'Keeffe, and John Updike, among many others.
Download or read book A Notebook at Random written by Irving Penn and published by Bulfinch. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Platinum and Palladium Photographs written by Constance McCabe and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume presents the results of a four-year inter-institutional, interdisciplinary research initiative led and organized by the National Gallery of Art. Contributions by 47 leading photograph conservators, scientists, and historians provide detailed examinations of the chemical, material, and aesthetic qualities of this important class of rare, beautiful, and technically complex photographs. The volume will help those who care for photograph collections gain a thorough appreciation of the technical and aesthetic characteristics of platinum and palladium prints and scientific basis for their preservation.
Download or read book The Astronomers Plan a Voyage to Earth written by Irving Penn and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While working as a graphic artist in New York, Irving Penn made these drawings before ever taking his first photograph. Originally intended to accompany a short fable, this collection, made from 1939 to 1942, lay dormant until they were uncovered in 1996. Shortly later, Penn gave these drawings new life in a tale about distant space travelers planning a journey to Earth. Pencil renderings depict the benevolent astronauts and their space travel apparatus of cylinders, tubes, funnels, and spouts in this simple yet zen-like tale of exploration. The deluxe production of this book is consistent with Penn's renown for using the finest materials for his photographic work. Handsomely printed on heavy-weight paper, this clothbound, French-fold edition is a unique creation by one of the great artists of our time.
Download or read book Irving Penn Vessels written by Irving Penn and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Wrap Five Eggs written by Hideyuki Oka and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Japanese packaging is an art form that applies sophisticated design and natural aesthetics to simple objects. In this elegant presentation of the baskets, boxes, wrappers, and containers that were used in ordinary, day-to-day life, we are offered a stunning example of a time before mass production. Largely constructed of bamboo, rice straw, hemp twine, paper, and leaves, all of the objects shown here are made from natural materials. Through 221 black-and-white photographs of authentic examples of traditional Japanese packaging—with commentary on the origins, materials, and use of each piece—the items here offer a look into a lost art, while also reminding us of the connection to nature and the human imprint of handwork that was once so alive and vibrant in our everyday lives. This classic book was originally published under the title How to Wrap Five More Eggs in 1975. The eminent American designer George Nelson praised the work featured here, saying, “We have come a long, long way from the kind of thing so beautifully presented in this book. To suit the needs of super mass production, the traditional natural materials are too obstreperous . . . and one by one we have replaced them with the docile, predicable synthetics. . . . What we have gained from these [new] materials and wonderfully complicated processes to make up for the general pollution, rush, crowding, noise, sickness, and slickness is a subject for other forums. But what we have lost for sure is what this book is all about: a once-common sense of fitness in the relationships between hand, material, use, and shape, and above all, a sense of delight in the look and feel of very ordinary, humble things. This book is thus . . . a totally unexpected monument to a culture, a way of life, a universal sensibility carried through all objects down to the smallest, most inconsequential, and ephemeral things.” Now, over thirty years later, this revived classic on the art of traditional Japanese packing may leave us with the same response, and the same appreciation for the natural and utile packaging presented in this book.
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1947-05-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
