Benjamin Marks
Veteran
Another master passes. Damn I love that man's work.
Ben Marks
Ben Marks
larmarv916
Well-known
When and where did the announcement show up? I would like to read, I just cant think of this as real. Laurance
Al Kaplan
Veteran
He died 7 hours ago at age 92 About 5:30 PM Easter Daylight Savings Time, 7 Oct. 2009
I just Googled his name to find out.
I just Googled his name to find out.
BTMarcais
Well-known
larmarv916
Well-known
I found out it was posted by Yahoo about 5 hours ago and because it got almost zero hits.... it vanished off the current news. Here is a copy of the Reuters comments.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. fashion and portrait photographer Irving Penn died on Wednesday in New York at the age of 92, a spokesman for his studio said.
Penn's work has been shown in galleries around the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and several books of his works have been published.
"He was probably most famous for photographing Parisian fashion models and the world's great cultural figures, but he seemed equally at home photographing Peruvian peasants or bunion pads," The New York Times obituary said.
Penn had a long association with Vogue, photographing countless covers for the magazine.
The Los Angeles Times described him as "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 designer dresses or fleshy nudes, famous artists or tribal chiefs, cigarette butts or cosmetics jars."
Yes a real master has passed on and the world is smaller now that he is gone.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. fashion and portrait photographer Irving Penn died on Wednesday in New York at the age of 92, a spokesman for his studio said.
Penn's work has been shown in galleries around the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and several books of his works have been published.
"He was probably most famous for photographing Parisian fashion models and the world's great cultural figures, but he seemed equally at home photographing Peruvian peasants or bunion pads," The New York Times obituary said.
Penn had a long association with Vogue, photographing countless covers for the magazine.
The Los Angeles Times described him as "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 designer dresses or fleshy nudes, famous artists or tribal chiefs, cigarette butts or cosmetics jars."
Yes a real master has passed on and the world is smaller now that he is gone.
35mmdelux
Veni, vidi, vici
One of my inspirations. I bought his book, Passage, many yrs ago. God's speed Mr. Penn.
rlouzan
Well-known
Benjamin Marks
Veteran
It is not an exaggeration to say that the elegant simplicity of his vision and his technical mastery has influenced me more than any other single photographer. And so many of the images that I carry around in my head of famous personalities of his age are the images he made.
Ben
Ben
eleskin
Well-known
A great influence on me!
A great influence on me!
I remember when I was a graduate student at Pratt Institute in 1991 how important these masters of photography were and still are to me today. I remember being at the Museum of Modern Art in the dark gallery in the back (before they changed the place - this was in 1990) and sitting there for hours just taking everything in. It was very spiritual for me, almost like you could feel the life energy of these great photographers on the wall, and how I was part of it all (my "third eye" the photo eye). It gave me goose bumps and a feeling of being in another place and time. this makes me realize Masters like Penn live on in their work, like Motzart or any of us for that matter. We all need to take this to heart, and use that knowledge to pursue what we are in love with as artists. I am editing my work now as I am saying this, and it makes me stronger every single day!
Good bye Irving Penn,
You work is forever!
A great influence on me!
I remember when I was a graduate student at Pratt Institute in 1991 how important these masters of photography were and still are to me today. I remember being at the Museum of Modern Art in the dark gallery in the back (before they changed the place - this was in 1990) and sitting there for hours just taking everything in. It was very spiritual for me, almost like you could feel the life energy of these great photographers on the wall, and how I was part of it all (my "third eye" the photo eye). It gave me goose bumps and a feeling of being in another place and time. this makes me realize Masters like Penn live on in their work, like Motzart or any of us for that matter. We all need to take this to heart, and use that knowledge to pursue what we are in love with as artists. I am editing my work now as I am saying this, and it makes me stronger every single day!
Good bye Irving Penn,
You work is forever!
