Showing posts with label Irving Penn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irving Penn. Show all posts

Monday, January 25, 2010

Photography Exhibition: The Museum of Modern Art - Irving Penn, 1917–2009

Jasper Johns by Irving Penn The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), in New York, NY has some of the most amazing exhibitions of contemporary photography in the US Irving Penn, 1917–2009 looks like it will be another in their series of wonderful exhibitions at the Museum. If you’re in the New York City area, don’t miss this exhibition. I plan to go myself, if at all possible.

The exhibition will run for the foreseeable future.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Photography Exhibition: The Art Institute of Chicago - Irving Penn: A Tribute

Irving Penn. The Angel, 1946 (printed 1990)It seems as though this is the year to recognize the incredible career of Irving Penn. This new exhibition by the Art Institute of Chicago, Irving Penn: A Tribute, seems to be another of their superbly carried out exhibitions.

This exhibition will run through December 13th

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Photography Exhibition: The Getty Museum - Irving Penn: Small Trades

Irving Penn, Mrs. Amory Carhart, New York, 1947The Getty Museum has become one of the premier museums exhibiting great works of photographic art.

At the Getty Museum they are currently showing the work of Irving Penn, a great American photographer in the exhibition Irving Penn: Small Trades.
 
This exhibition will run through January 10, 2009

“Working in Paris, London, and New York in the early 1950s, photographer Irving Penn (American, born 1917) created masterful representations of skilled tradespeople dressed in work clothes and carrying the tools of their occupations.