A compendium of the influential Vogue photographer's still life works includes examples of his innovative earlier pieces as well as his personal productions of later years.

Product Description: This work springs from the high regard fashion photographer Irving Penn has for has for the Japanese designer, Issey Miyake, who has said that Penn's photographs allow him to see his own designs.

The synergy between photographer Irving Penn and designer Issey Miyake is captured in this tour of Miyake's clothing across his long career and working relationship with Penn.

Product Description: Irving Penn, though well-known as one of the 20th-century's master photographers, was originally trained as a painter. In 1997 he unearthed a series of his own abstract, mechanistic drawings made between 1939 and 1942, before he began to take photographs...read more

Now available in paperbackIrving Penn’s photographs have become iconic documents of an era––from his fashion and commercial editorials to his series of nudes and portraits of artists, musicians, writers, celebrities, and tribesmen of New Guinea, Peru, and Morocco. Originally published in 1997 to accompany an exhibition celebrating the Irving Penn Collection and Archives at the Art Institute of Chicago, this book examines Penn’s remarkable and wide-ranging career and his uncompromising artistic vision. With nearly 200 captivating photographs that span the entire scope of his artistic production––including poetic portraits of Cecil Beaton, Marcel Duchamp, Arshile Gorky, Elsa Schiaparelli, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Truman Capote––the book features essays by distinguished scholars and reflections by individuals who have known him well or collaborated with him. They also discuss Penn's particular genius for demonstrating how a profound and humane art can be created at the center of a society increasingly dominated by and enthralled with mass media.

A retrospective of Penn's portraits, fashion photography, and still lifes

Shows and discusses hats, shoes, jackets, trousers, coats, capes, jumpsuits, and dresses by the Japanese designer

Presents the celebrated photographer's seventy-three remarkable portrait studies of the poppy, the rose, the peony, the lily, the orchid, the begonia, and the tulip at each stage of growth, from bud to death

Photographs of pre-World War II fashions by Poiret, Vionnet, Alix, les Callot Soeurs, Molyneux, Paquin, Chanel, and Schiaparelli, are accompanied by historical and social commentaries