Extraordinary Black And White Portraits Of Celebrities Taken By Irving Penn
Isabella Rossellini
Best known for his fashion photography, Penn’s repertoire also includes portraits of creative greats; ethnographic photographs from around the world; Modernist still lifes of food, bones, bottles, metal, and found objects; and photographic travel essays.
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Ingmar Bergman
Irving Penn was among the first photographers to pose subjects against a simple grey or white backdrop and he effectively used this simplicity. Expanding his austere studio surroundings, Penn constructed a set of upright angled backdrops, to form a stark, acute corner. Penn’s manipulation of formal design elements such as light and shadow, and his ability to capture a significant gesture, expression, or mood, ultimately reveal something intriguing about his subjects.
Rudolf Nureyev
John Updike
Yves Saint Laurent
Truman Capote
Francis Bacon
Jasper Johns
Alberto Giacometti
Audrey Hepburn
Ingmar Bergman
Richard Burton
Miles Davis
Joan Didion
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Jean Cocteau
Marc Jacobs
Leontyne Price
Martin Scorsese
Dora Maar
Tom Stoppard
Louis Jouvet
Helmut Newton
Al Pacino
Pablo Picasso
Louise Bourgeois
Carson McCullers
Isamu Noguchi
Nicole Kidman
Robin Williams
