Irving Penn died yesterday, October 7, aged 92. One of the great American fashion photographers of the last century, he was a great influence on many other photographers, but although I wrote a little about him, I never warmed to his work. There is a fine long obituary feature on him in the New York Times, written by Andy Grundberg, and another with a slide show of nine of his pictures on their Lens blog.
You can see more pictures on Photography Now, though it’s a site which annoys me by resizing my browser window, but it does show his work well. There are many more pictures on the Art Pages site, hosted in the Ukraine, where copyright is perhaps rather different. The site isn’t in English, but if you click on any of the thumbs to view, then clicking on it again brings up an enlarged version, and clicking on the link to the top right of the picture goes on to the next. It includes some pictures I don’t think I’ve seen before.
