First edition. A retrospective of this photographer's work from 1938-1990. Includes his work for such prominent magazines as Vogue and Vanity Fair. Extensively illustrated with finely rendered reproductions. Includes images of many celebrities. Introduction by Alexander Liberman. 300 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 4to..

Passage. A Work Record

Arts & Photography

Irving Penn

Photography & Video

Alfred A. Knopf / Callaway

Worlds in a Small Room

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

In a career that spans more than fifty years, photographer Irving Penn has created some of the most arresting portraits, influential fashion studies, and provocative still lifes of the twentieth century. Although much of his work was undertaken for reproduction in magazines, since the early 1960s he has also made a limited number of platinum/palladium prints of his most celebrated photographs. A meticulous craftsman, Penn has experimented extensively with this process in order to make prints with remarkably subtle, rich tonal ranges and luxurious textures; prints that are, in fact, the exact opposite of the more neutral reproductions of his photographs that appear in the popular press. Included in this handsomely designed and beautifully produced book are platinum/palladium prints of some of Penn€™s most important photographs: portraits of Pablo Picasso, David Smith, Saul Steinberg, and Marcel Duchamp; studies of indigenous peoples in New Guinea and Peru; innovative

Irving Penn: Platinum Prints

Greenough, Sarah

History

Yale University Press

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

Flowers

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Harmony

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

Inventive Paris Clothes, 1909-1939: A Photographic Essay by Irving Penn

Diana Vreeland

Viking Press

On assignment for Vogue in the 1950s and 1960s, Penn (1917-2009) traveled the world as an "ambulant studio photographer", setting up a tent and photographing the people of Cuzco, Crete, Extremadura, Dahomey, Cameroon, San Francisco, Nepal, New Guinea, and Morocco. There is as well his photo-essay on the "small trades" of Paris, London and NYC. A photo-book masterpiece of the late 20th century. Cloth-bound hardcover in a pictorial dust jacket. 96 pages; 76 b&amp;w photographic plates--most full-page--including text illustrations and photographs of Penn at work by his wife, Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn; 11 x 11 inches.

Grossman Publishers

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

Passage: A Work Record

Alexandra Arrowsmith

Nicola Majocchi

Individual Artists

Alfred.A. Knopf

Nude photographs of the dancer Alexandra Beller from the Bill T. Jones Dance Company taken by Penn over four sessions in 1999. Published on the occasion of the 2001 exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC. Photographs by Irving Penn; essay by Sylvia Wolf; introduction by Anne Wilkes Tucker. 63 pages; 27 full-page tri-toned b&w plates; 11 x 12 inches.

Dancer

Sylvia Wolf

Nazraeli Press

PASSAGE―a work record

Callaway Editions

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Irving Penn. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Irving Penn