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Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-1950

By (author) Irving Penn






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A departure from Irving Penn's fashion and editorial work for the pages of Vogue , this virtually unknown collection depicts the unfettered form of the female nude. Famous for insightful portraiture, surprising still life and other commercial work, Irving Penn is less well known as a superb photographer of the female nude. His most important pictures in this genre were made in 1949-50. The women Penn chose and the ways he viewed them produced nudes that were highly unorthodox by mid-20th century standards - charged with powerful physical and sexual energy yet somehow chaste, they are among the most ambitious and successful nudes ever made.

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Publisher | Little, Brown & Company
Published date | 4 Apr 2002
Language |
Format | Hardback
Pages | 100
Dimensions | 300 x 291 x 19mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 1140g
ISBN | 978-0-8212-2787-9
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BISAC | photography / collections, catalogs, exhibitions


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