Irving Penn (1917-2009) is best known as a fashion photographer, but above all he was an artist. Elizabeth Broun, director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, describes him as the ...

Single Oriental Poppy, New York, 1968 Dye transfer print, 1987 16 7⁄8 × 21 1⁄8 in. (42.9 × 53.7 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation.

IN 2017, when New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art staged a major exhibition honoring the 100th birthday of the late photographer Irving Penn, its director, Thomas P. Campbell, cited Penn ...

But Irving Penn, a fore­father of fashion photography, also shot cracked eggs, red roosters and globs of matte lipstick, which the Smithsonian American Art Museum will display in 2015 in an ...

“Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty” is on view in Washington, D.C. at the Smithsonian American Art Museum through March 20, 2016, before traveling to the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas (April 15 ...

Irving Penn (1917–2009), known for his iconic fashion, portrait and still life images that appeared in Vogue magazine, ranks as one of the foremost photographers of the 20th century. “Irving Penn: ...

This year marks legendary photographer Irving Penn's centennial. To celebrate his life's work, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is opening an exhibit featuring more than 200 of Penn's ...

“Penn blurred the line between art and commercial photography,” said Stephen White, a photography dealer who held the first Los Angeles exhibit of Penn’s work in 1978. In that show the ...

A 1950 photograph by Irving Penn shows a London seamstress with the tools of her trade -- thread, pins, tape measure, fabric -- her right hand casually tucked inside one pocket, her other shrouded ...

Irving Penn (1917-2009) was a daring and fastidious printer who, ... Penn was deeply learned in the history of art and wanted his photographs to hold their own in that cavalcade.

A new survey, “Irving Penn,” opening at San Francisco’s de Young Museum on Saturday (it will be up through July 21) reminds us of one crucial thing about Mr. Penn’s work: His images still ...

Photographer Irving Penn had a unique style that was always in Vogue — and in other magazines over the past 60 years. His work was especially suited to the glossies.