Irving Penn :: An Amazing Exhibition

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Ted Forbes

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🗓️ 14 April 2016

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Today I got invited to attend the DMA press preview for the Irving Penn :: Beyond Beauty exhibition. And I got to film and interview the exhibition curator Merry Foresta. On view in Dallas from April 15, 2016 to August 14, 2016 https://dma.org/art/exhibitions/irving-penn-beyond-beauty Irving Penn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Penn Merry Foresta http://www.clearwaysconsulting.com/merry-foresta-bio.php Twitter: http://twitter.com/tedforbes Instagram: http://instagram.com/tedforbes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aop.podcast Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/tedforbes Website: http://theartofphotography.tv And get on our mailing list to stay up to date on photography news and the latest episodes: http://theartofphotography.tv/about/mailing-list/ Ted Forbes The Art of Photography 3100 Main St #135 Dallas, Texas 75226 Thanks for watching - if you like this video, remember to share it with your friends! My name is Ted Forbes and I make videos about photography. I’ve been making photographs most of my life and I have a tremendously deep passion for photography that I want to share with you on YouTube. The Art of Photography is my channel and I produce photography videos to provide a 360 degree look into the world of making images. We all want to get better so lets do this together! I make videos covering famous photographers, photography techniques, composition, the history of photography and much more. I also have a strong community of photographers who watch the show and we frequently do social media challenges for photographers to submit their own work. I feature the best and most interesting on the show when we do these so come check it out and get involved!

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0:00.0	So when an exhibition opens at an art museum, typically a few days before they hold an event that is called a press preview.
0:07.5	Now the idea behind a press preview is to invite members of the press to come down to see the exhibition, take images, shoot video, talk to
0:14.8	curators, and build stories around this that hopefully they will run in the media to promote the
0:19.2	exhibition by the time it opens. This morning is the press preview for Irving Penn's Beyond Beauty in
0:24.7	Dallas and I've been invited and I've also been invited to bring you guys along with
0:28.7	me so come on we're going to Dallas to see Irving Penn. Oh, Oh, mostly vogue you would do the covers in color and we have some wonderful pen color over there.
1:27.0	Except for one, Penn did the first black and white photo cover for Vogue and we have that wonderful
1:33.0	cover here as well.
1:35.0	What I love about this image is it's one of those key images that
1:40.0	is in a style that may not last very long for Penn, but yet it sweeps together a lot of things he had been thinking about and a lot of things that he would think about more.
1:51.0	And so it's a portrait portrait it's a still life and it has that wonderful strain of surrealism and it was done for a magazine article about this actress.
2:02.0	Margaret Sullivan was at the time one of the stars in
2:07.0	Broadway and it was a new play that had just opened called The Voice of the
2:11.6	Turtle where she plays this very curious and
2:15.0	sexually precocious young girl and that's the theme of it. And so what Penn has
2:21.6	done in this picture, totally styled by Penn, is given us the elements
2:27.0	of a surreal still life. I mean, what that hammer is doing, not breaking the egg.
2:32.4	So we've got an egg and we've got a hammer and we've got
2:35.0	some sort of medieval looking glass thing and we've got drawers that are partially
2:39.3	open with stuff coming out of them all very proud but and but. But as a portrait it's kind of odd because she's
2:46.1	not square in the center of it and in fact she seems to be hiding behind this other
2:51.0	thing so she's somewhere in the middle ground but there's stuff going on in the background
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