See larger photo
| Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-50
     
[Click on the appropriate flag to buy the book] | Product Details
Hardcover
96 pages
Bulfinch
Published 2002
Book Description
One of the world's preeminent photographers, Irving Penn is famous for portraiture, still life, and other commercial work. He is less well known as a superb photographer of the female nude. His most important pictures in this genre were made in 1949-50 during intense sessions with artist's models that were essentially an artistic antidote to the ephemeral fashion world. Charged with powerful, physical, and sexual energy, yet somehow chaste, the images are among the most ambitious and successful nudes ever made. Sequenced to reveal the artist's progressive exploration of his theme, the photographs constitute a remarkable whole-a frieze of life based on a love affair with earthly goddesses. |
Irving Penn Regards the Work of Issey Miyake: Photographs 1975-1998
Issey Miyake; Irving Penn; & Mark Holborn (Introduction) |  |
|
Still Life: Irving Penn Photographs, 1938-2000
Irving Penn |  |
|
Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-50
Irving Penn |  |
|
A Notebook at Random
Irving Penn (Photographer / Artist) |  |
|
Irving Penn: Photographs of Dahomey 1967
Irving Penn (Photographer); Melville J. Herskovits (Essay); Frances S. Herskovits (Essay); & Anne Wilkes Tucker (Introduction) |  |
|
| |
LuminousLint 
@LuminousLint
