very special skull of the day:Irving Penn ~still life
one more tribute to amazing photographer
R.I.P. Irving Penn~Irving Penn turning head,1993
via Luminous-Lint
mr.Penn on bits&bites before:here
Deep Sea Diver (B), New York, 1951, gelatin silver print, Irving Penn, copyright 1951 (renewed 1979) by Conde Nast Publications Ltd., Partial Gift of Irving Penn, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA via marshallastor
rest in peace mr.Penn.
i12bent: Irving Penn: Tanaquil LeClerc, w. members of The Ballet Society, including George Balanchine
From: Close Encounters: Irving Penn Portraits of Artists and Writers at The Morgan Library & Museum, curated by Peter Barberie.
“Each of these works is a vivid record of the encounter between Penn and his subject,” said guest curator Peter Barberie. “If a fundamental task of portraiture is to capture subjects differently than they present themselves to the world, then Penn has succeeded admirably. He enters into hard negotiation with every personality that stops in front of his camera and, very often, he wins.” (More)
once more: skull/z from Irving Penn