Irving Penn

Irving Penn in his studio

Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn

Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn

Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn

Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn

Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn

Vogue cover 1950

Jean Patchett

(**recently sold for $28,750 at auction)

1974

1987


Woman With Roses
Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn

• Born in 1917 - New Jersey
• Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art
• 1938 - Worked as a graphic artist in New York
• Began to work for Vogue Magazine after returning to NYC from painting in Mexic
• Vogue art director, Alexander Liberman, encouraged Penn to take first color photograph (which then became the October 1, 1943 cover)
• Irving Penn is internationally known for editorial and fashion photography (among numerous other photographic projects) with 9 books published on photography.

-2008 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?570277