Irving Penn
Irving Penn was one of the twentieth century's great photographers, known for his arresting images and masterful printmaking. Although he was celebrated as one of Vogue magazine's top photographers for more than sixty years, Penn was an intensely private man who avoided the limelight and pursued his work with quiet and relentless dedication. At a time when photography was primarily understood as a means of communication, he approached it with an artist's eye and expanded the creative potential of the medium, both in his professional and personal work.
Born in 1917 in Plainfield, New Jersey to immigrant parents, Penn attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts from 1934 through 1938 and studied with Alexey Brodovitch in his Design Laboratory. A formidable Russian émigré who worked in Paris in the 1920s, Brodovitch taught the application of principles of modern art and design through exposure to magazines, exhibitions, architecture, and photography.
He's renowned for breaking down the boundary between commercial and fine-art photography, working in a style of refined, elegant minimalism. But he also does many other types of photography for example. He does still lifes, black and white style pictures and self portraits of people.
He invented “the exotic fashion shoot” Whilst abroad, Penn began focussing on photographing his subjects in natural light, surrounded by textiles indicative of the country they were in. This gave rise to the “exotic fashion shoot”, a concept he dreamt of when working in a windowless office earlier in his life. Irving Penn influenced my work in my self portraits and still life because I took an up close picture that holds emotion and enough detail to tell where we are in the picture. Also in the still life’s he did any object he could find and that's what I did. I saw a close object and more then 3 of them and rearranged them into 5 different still life that is how Irving Penn influenced my work.
Born in 1917 in Plainfield, New Jersey to immigrant parents, Penn attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts from 1934 through 1938 and studied with Alexey Brodovitch in his Design Laboratory. A formidable Russian émigré who worked in Paris in the 1920s, Brodovitch taught the application of principles of modern art and design through exposure to magazines, exhibitions, architecture, and photography.
He's renowned for breaking down the boundary between commercial and fine-art photography, working in a style of refined, elegant minimalism. But he also does many other types of photography for example. He does still lifes, black and white style pictures and self portraits of people.
He invented “the exotic fashion shoot” Whilst abroad, Penn began focussing on photographing his subjects in natural light, surrounded by textiles indicative of the country they were in. This gave rise to the “exotic fashion shoot”, a concept he dreamt of when working in a windowless office earlier in his life. Irving Penn influenced my work in my self portraits and still life because I took an up close picture that holds emotion and enough detail to tell where we are in the picture. Also in the still life’s he did any object he could find and that's what I did. I saw a close object and more then 3 of them and rearranged them into 5 different still life that is how Irving Penn influenced my work.