Irving PennBy Changmin Lee

Life of Irving Penn

• Born June 16, 1917• Graduated Philadelphia Museum School in 1938• Worked as a fashion photographer for Vogue

magazine.• Married to his favorite model, Lisa Fonssagrives,

in 1950• Opened his own studio in 1953• Named as one of “The World’s 10 Greatest

Photographer”• Has a son named Tom• His age is 91 now

Self Portrait -1986

Penn’s style

• Clarity, composition, careful arrangement of objects or people, form, and the use of light characterize Penn's work. Penn also photographs still life objects and found objects in unusual arrangements with great detail and clarity.

• While his prints are always clean and clear, Penn's subjects vary widely. Many times his photographs are so ahead of their time that they only came to be appreciated as important works in the modernist canon years after their creation.

• His still life compositions are skillfully arranged assemblages of food or objects; at once spare and highly organized, the objects are raised to a graphic perfection, articulating the abstract interplay of line and volume.

STILL LIFE

Still Life with Watermelon(1947)

After-dinner Games(1947)

Salad Ingredients (1947)

Cigarette 17 (1972)

Italian Still Life (1981)

Cholesterol’s Revenge(1984)

Street Findings (1999)

Portraits

Ballet Society (1948)

Woman with Roses -Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn(1950)

Three Asaro Mud Men (1970)

Man with Pink Face (1970)

Three Rissani Women (1971)

Changmin Lee

Time Paradox (2009)

Desk Findings (2009)

Still Life with CDs (2009)

The End