October 2009
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Irving Penn, Fashion Photographer, Is Dead at 92
By ANDY GRUNDBERG Published: October 8, 2009
Irving Penn, one of the 20th century’s most prolific and influential photographers of fashion and the famous, whose signature blend of classical elegance and cool minimalism was recognizable to magazine readers and museumgoers worldwide, died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 92.
Irving Penn, New York, 1951.
Mr. Penn’s talent for...
Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans"
On Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum, September 22-December 27, 2009
When Robert Frank’s photographs of the Eisenhower-era United States were first published in 1959, they outraged many and provided subversive delight to a few. But the few proved both prescient and influential. Within a few decades Frank’s suite of photographs, The Americans, came to be widely regarded as one of the most...
