There are shots that capture the 'public's attention to detail, something so unique as to make the' perfect image and unforgettable: the 'intensity of a face marked by time, the sensuality of a 'shadow, which is opposed to light, the' immortality snatched an event at a time and destined to become history. Irving Penn is one of the best photographers of the twentieth century, artists with talent, imagination and a flair for taking exceptional specimen. Though his name is mainly linked to the major fashion magazines, Penn has not failed to document the cultural wealth of peoples and tribes that he met and photographed in a number of trips made during his long career. Originally from New Jersey where he was born June 16, 1917, the young Irving cultivated a passion for the 'art and painting, a discipline that, initially, hoped to spend time and fatigue.
At the beginning of the thirties, Irving attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art and became a pupil of the famous Russian photographer Alexey Brodovitch creative director of the journal Harper 's Bazaar from 1938 to 1958. Completed his studies in 1938 he made some drawings published shortly after the famous American magazine published by Hearst Corporation, the same that, in the same year, the teacher works Brodovitch. After a brief stint working at the Junior League Magazine gravure, Irving left the 'use decided to indulge their artistic side. He left for Mexico, where the colors and the traditions which inspired a series of paintings, judged by the same photographer "rather disappointing" and a year later, he returned to the United States, certainly not to have the makings of a painter.
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the failed experience of art, Irving Penn moved to New York in 1943, where he worked for Vogue magazine as an assistant to help ' then creative director Alexander Lieberman. Also for Vogue magazine, Penn began to realize the first photo, ottonenedo, quickly earned the professional recognition. The simplicity of the first plans identified by a stark monochrome background (gray and white are the predominant colors) enable further accentuates The subject without distracting the 'public's attention with unnecessary details. As if to draw the 'ancient tradition of painting of the Renaissance, portraits of Penn's favor recall some elements of the "symbolic" that describes or evokes the personality of the character chosen.
In 1948, taking advantage of a photo shoot in Peru, Irving began to develop a strong interest in the 'ethnography of the indigenous tribes, who documented in a number of reportages of great beauty and cultural depth. Meanwhile
advertising campaigns and photo shoots for Vogue magazine will devote their professional reputation and ensured a fair economic success. In 1953, Penn opened a studio that allowed him to work as a freelancer. The most famous faces of cinema, the 'art and literature rested in front of his goal, becoming the true icons of a generation in the world with a timeless black and white; "sacred cows" of the likes of Truman Capote, Colette, Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso found the 'immortality photographic shots in her elegant and original, deeply emotional.
At the beginning of the sixties Irving Penn was a successful photographer, contested by the major magazines in the country, adored by the stars - the system moneyed Hollywood. In 1967 has a small portable studio "with which he made the dream of combining fashion and ethnography in services showing beautiful costumes and customs of the peoples of the world. It is of striking images, live, very distinct from star-like pose of the laurels of Vogue. Shots are vibrant in which one sees the passion of Irving for their craft, the quality of his undeniable talent. Renamed the series "Worlds in a small room" since the photos depicting a small group of people in a confined space that evokes the walls of a room. The beautiful and moving human variety, full of rituals and traditions, just a "click", a cultural universe in the house.
In 1950 the photographer married Swedish model Lisa Fonssagrives, met three years earlier during a photo shoot. Lisa was the companion of a life together and had a son, they say, they formed a very close-knit pair. All 'pinnacle of success, the Met (Metropolitan Museum) in New York, he exhibited a series of works with which Irving Penn, come off the bridle patinatissima Vogue, photographed from the waste of urban society that infested the city daily, raised to the rank of art. The exhibition called "Street Material" and had great success with critics and audiences. Many other exposures interested 's artist whose name continues to be, after some time, synonymous with class and skills Camera . L 'Art Institute of Chicago also houses a rich archive devoted entirely to his works. Irving Penn, died on October 7, 2009 at his residence in Manhattan all' age of 92.
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