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Synopsis
From his very first photograph made on assignment for Vogue in 1943 to the fresh images that he continues to make for that magazine today at age eighty-seven, Irving Penn again and again has shown an uncanny ability to surprise the world with his art. Far from a typical career retrospective, A Notebook at Random is a revelation.
Included here are some of Penn's signature images - austere, elegantly composed portraits, still lifes, and fashion photographs - along with rough sketches and line drawings that provide a window into ideas and images in the making. A consummate technician and innovator, Penn invites us to consider process alongside end product, providing new insight into his radical compositions, experiments with light, and unique printing techniques.
A Notebook at Random is populated with artists, writers, and models whose lives intersected with Penn's: Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Lisa Fonssagrives look out at us with that timeless intensity that characterizes an Irving Penn portrait. Many of the photographs presented here are alternate poses or torn test fragments, pages from his personal "notebook"; some are newer discoveries, including a previously unpublished portrait of Truman Capote.
Some of the most striking pages in this "notebook" reproduce Penn's paintings, painted photographs, and mixed-media works, images so layered and exquisitely constructed that they resemble cubist assemblages. And in keeping with Penn's long-standing commitment to the optimal presentation of his work, this book is produced to the most exacting standards: fine paper, full cloth binding, and reproductions that are almost indistinguishable from his originals.
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About the Author
Irving Penn was born in 1917. He studied design with Alexey Brodovitch at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art and, in 1943, produced his first color photograph, a still life for the cover of Vogue. In a career of more than sixty years, he has made an extensive and influential body of work in portraiture, fashion, and still life. Mr. Penn is the author of several books, including Moments Preserved (1960), Worlds in a Small Room (1974), Flowers (1980), Passage (1991), Still Life (2000), and Earthly Bodies (2002).
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- PublisherBulfinch
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0821261924
- ISBN 13 9780821261927
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages128
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Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Good. Included here are some the photographer Irving Penn's signature images - austere, elegantly composed portraits, still lifes, and fashion photographs - along with rough sketches and line drawings that provide a window into ideas and images in the making. A consummate technician and innovator, Penn invites viewers to consider process alongside end product, providing new insight into his radical compositions, experiments with light, and unique printing techniques. With brief text excerpts and notations throughout. Illus., 81 tritone, 56 in four-color. 125p. Seller Inventory # 1752618
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Hardcover. First edition. Folio. 125pp. Original off-white cloth with black lettering on spine, in original color-illustrated dustjacket with black lettering on spine. Decorative endpapers. Profusely illustrated with striking color and b/w photographs throughout, some sketches. "From his very first photograph made on assignment for Vogue in 1943 to the startingly fresh images the he continues to make for that magazine today at age eighty-seven, Irving Penn again and again has shown an uncanny ability to surprise the world with his art. Far from the typical career retrospective, A Notebook at Random is a revelation." (Publisher). Minor wear and spotting of binding. Very good to near fine condition. Seller Inventory # 54267
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