PENN, Irving

About the American photographer, Irving PENN (1917-2009)

The U.S. photographer Irving PENN became famous in the postwar period as a fashion and portrait photographer. Trained as a designer photographer, he began taking pictures for Vogue in the 1940s and was strongly influenced by the style of fashion photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe. In his later years he turned increasingly to still life. Irving PENN is one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, he received the cultural award of the Deutsche Gesllschaft für Photographie (DGPh) in 1987.

Photo books by or about the work of Irving PENN

• 'Augenblicke' (1960); 'Inventive Paris Clothes, 1909-1939' (1978); 'Worlds in a Small Room' (1980); 'Photographs in platinum metals 1947-1975' (1981); 'Irving Penn' (1984); 'Cranium Architecture' (1988); 'Issey Miyake' (1988); 'Flowers' (1988, 2015); 'Passage' (1991); 'Master Images' (1994); 'Photographs' (1996); 'A Career in Photography' (1997); 'Still Life. Photographs 1938-2000' (2001); 'Objects for the Printed Page' (2001); 'Earthly Bodies. Nudes, 1949-50' (2002); 'Photographs of Dahomey. 1967' (2004); 'Platinum Prints' (2005); 'Eine Retrospektive' (2005); 'Small Trades' (2009); 'Archeology' (2010); 'Portraits' (2010); 'Hinter der Kamera' (2015); 'Beyond Beauty' (2015); 'Centennial' (2017); 'Irving Penn betrachtet das Werk von Issey Miyake: Photographien 1975-1998' (2022);