Irving Penn, a grand master of American fashion photography whose “less is more” aesthetic, combined with a startling sensuality, defined a visual style that he applied to such varied subjects ...

Penn also continued to experiment in his personal work: components of traditional still-life paintings like skulls, fish, paintbrushes and dice, for instance, arranged artfully and bizarrely, shot ...

How Irving Penn Turned Fashion Photography Into a Fine Art A new show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum looks back at a photo giant who blurred the lines ...

LONDON - The shocking and elegant photographs of American photographer Irving Penn are getting a Spanish retrospective at the Marta Ortega Peréz Foundation, otherwise known as MOP Foundation in ...

Portraits are one of the most popular and challenging forms of the genre. Making a photograph of someone, whether a known person or a stranger, is like trying to unravel their best traits within ...

“Irving Penn considered himself first and foremost an artist, not a photographer: an artist who wanted to contribute to the establishment of photography as a fine art,” Broun said. If “Beyond Beauty” ...

Italian jewelry brand Lil Milan is launching a special collection to mark its 10th anniversary. Dubbed “Golden Drops,” the concise range draws loose inspiration from Irving Penn’s 1963 ...

Irving Penn is photography’s nonpareil - a champion of chiaroscuro and master of silver gelatin and platinum printing techniques. He created a style most photographers find almost impossible not ...

Penn’s photographs took fashion photography to the next level, transforming it from basic, straight-on shots to complex images of simple subjects that were worthy of artistic recognition.

Irving Penn, a renowned American photographer whose career spanned more than seven decades, died this morning (10/07) in New York. He was 92.

This auction is imperative to the diktats of the history of modern photography because it positions Penn as a stalwart in the study of Still Life in photography. What is a still life?