Irving Penn update...

I'm trying to keep things fair,

but I REALLY wanted to include

these Irving Penn images I found...

(Group shot, much like the ones seen

on the foldout covers of Vanity Fair today.)

Beautiful and dark.

Richard Avedon

"If a day goes by without my
doing something related to photography,
it's as though I've neglected something essential
to my existence, as though I had
forgotten to wake up."
-Richard Avedon, 1970-
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Nastassia Kinski

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Dovima, 1955

Image for Harper's Bazaar, 1955

Sunny Hartnett, 1954

Ronald Fisher, "The Beekeeper", 1981

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"As a fashion photographer,
Avedon took human vanity to new heights
even human vanity never dreamed of.
As a portraitist,
he brought us all down to earth."
-Ted Thai for Time-

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• Born on May 15, 1923 in New York
• Died on October 1, 2004 at the age of 81
• 1945-65: Staff photographer for Harper's Bazaar
• 1947-84: Photographed French collections in Paris for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar
• Named one of the world's 10 greatest photographers in 1958 - Popular Photography Magazine
• 1966-90: Staff photographer for Vogue
• 1992: First staff photographer for The New Yorker
• 1993: International Center of Photography "Master of Photography" award

--The Richard Avedon Foundation--

www.richardavedon.com

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

And what do you think, Ms. Wintour?

"Our needs are simple.

We want a photographer to take a dress,

make the girl look pretty,

give us lots of images to choose from,

and not give us any attitude.

Photographers - if they are any good -

want to create art."

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--Anna Wintour

Editor at Large

Vogue Magazine

Bienvenue, mes amis!

Hi!

Welcome to my little page dedicated to the fascinating

world of fashion photography!

For those of you who do not know me, fashion photography is an art that I am extremely passionate about. The merging of the fashion and image making industries intrigues me indefinitely.

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...And that is where this blog comes in - an ongoing image-based archive of research. My attempts will aim at comparing the "masters" (the originals, the innovators, and the best) of photography in the fashion world, with those driving the current work of the industry today.

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So please: leave comments, agree and disagree, like and dislike, and check beck regularly!

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Thanks for stopping by!

--Erik.