Irving Penn
Portraits of Artists and Writers
Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue, New York
January 18 through April 13, 2008
Over 60 portraits by famed photographer Irving Penn will be showcased at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City.
Penn built his career and made his mark doing fashion photography. He is said to remain a regular contributor to Vogue magazine.
Among the collected portraits on exhibit are those of: Pablo Picasso, Langston Hughes, Janis Joplin, Truman Capote, Woody Allen, Louise Bourgeois, and Rudolf Nureyev.
"Irving Penn has long been recognized as one of the great portrait photographers of the twentieth century. Since the 1940s he has recorded notable figures from literature, the visual and performing arts, and other fields. He made many of these portraits for Vogue, where his pared-down, frank compositions helped define the look of the magazine, and also established an important aesthetic for modernist photography."
Read more about this exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum website.
is a documentary about the Harlem "Ball" community, a group of talented dancers who created cutting-edge dance trends (such as "Voguing") and runway poses.
