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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: ThierryH on October 07, 2009, 04:43:21 pm

Title: Fashion, celebrity photographer Irving Penn dies
Post by: ThierryH on October 07, 2009, 04:43:21 pm
FYI

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091007/ap_on_...bit_irving_penn (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091007/ap_on_en_ot/us_obit_irving_penn)
Title: Fashion, celebrity photographer Irving Penn dies
Post by: TMARK on October 07, 2009, 05:41:02 pm
Penn was incredible.  He will be missed.

Quote from: ThierryH
FYI

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091007/ap_on_...bit_irving_penn (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091007/ap_on_en_ot/us_obit_irving_penn)
Title: Fashion, celebrity photographer Irving Penn dies
Post by: Stefan.Steib on October 07, 2009, 06:36:34 pm
Yes one of the very best ever has gone.
But his pictures will stay with us forever.
I have to say that this man was one of the reasons I became a photographer.

Stefan

Quote from: TMARK
Penn was incredible.  He will be missed.
Title: Fashion, celebrity photographer Irving Penn dies
Post by: Juanito on October 07, 2009, 07:45:01 pm
For anyone in or near LA, Penn's exhibit "Minor Trades" at the Getty is magnificent. If that was the only thing he accomplished in his career, it would have been a career well spent. The fact that it was just one small part of his body of work is unbelievable. It's sad that he's gone, but Irving Penn left behind work that will last a long, long time.

John
Title: Fashion, celebrity photographer Irving Penn dies
Post by: Terence h on October 08, 2009, 03:32:36 pm
What happened to the other Irving Penn thread that started on this forum , has it been moved or deleted ?
Or is in just not visible to me.

Terence
Title: Fashion, celebrity photographer Irving Penn dies
Post by: Streetshooter on October 08, 2009, 03:57:50 pm
Indeed he was incredible. Everything he photographed was touched by magic and in each of his images his honesty and passion shines through. It was his book 'Worlds In A Small Room' that was instrumental in me becoming a photographer, and for this I can't thank him enough.

He has had a good innings and has left so much brilliant work behind as a legacy. I urge anybody to go and look at his platinum prints if they can. Simply stunning work, everyone a masterpiece.

A sad day for photography...


Pete