From his very first photograph, made on assignment for Vogue in 1943, to startlingly fresh images that he continues to make for that magazine today at age 87, Irving Penn again and again shows 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, along with the rough sketches and line drawings that provide a window into ideas and images in the making. The book is populated with artists, writers, and models whose lives intersected with Penn's: Picasso looks out at us with that timeless intensity that characterizes an Irving Penn portrait. Many of the photographs are alternate poses or torn test fragments, pages from his personal 'notebook'; some are newer-found discoveries, including a previously unpublished portrait of Truman Capote. Some of the most striking pages in this 'notebook' reproduce Penn's painted photographs and mixed-media works, images so layered and exquisitely constructed that they resemble Cubist assemblages. With brief text excerpts and notations from Penn throughout, this is the most intimate and arresting book yet from one of the most admired artists of our time.
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This intimate new book presents Irving Penn's personal selections from a lifetime of photography and reveals the depth of his work in painting, drawing, and graphic media.
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.
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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. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition stated. Folio, approx 12 3/4 inches tall, unpaginated, color and black and white photographic illustrations, publisher's beige cloth lettered in black at spine, decorative endpapers (fine). Pictorial dust jacket (mild toning and dusting near top edge, minor rubbing, else very good). Seller Inventory # 08257
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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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Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: As New. First Edition. As new, in dust jacket. (128 pages, 91 tritone, 56 four-color illustrations). Seller Inventory # 140238
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Condition: Fine. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, April 28 (sale item)* inscribed by Irving Penn at the front free endpaper; 128 pp., Hardcover, fine in a fine dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Seller Inventory # ZB1200368
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