Still Life
- ISBN-10
- 1857099613
- ISBN-13
- 9781857099614
- Series
- Still Life
- Category
- Still-life painting
- Pages
- 80
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Virago Press
- Author
- Erika Langmuir
Description
Irving Penn is one of the twentieth century's most distinguished practitioners of the time-honored genre of still life. Following the venerable tradition of Chardin and other great still life painters, Penn brings his own astute and austere eye to the subject in photographs taken over the past sixty years. From his innovative and ongoing work for the editorial pages of Vogue to the harsher personal work of his later years, which explores the visual intrigue of such inconsequential objects as street trash, bones, and cigarette butts, he has created images that have a wit, simplicity, and edginess that set his work apart. These are photographs that can shock as well as delight.
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