Irving Penn - Many Versions of Perfect

B&H Photography Podcast

Jill Waterman

Podcast, Photography, Arts, Visual Arts, Bh, Photo

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We tried something a little different with this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast. We took three writers from our Explora blog along with us as we visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the much praised photography retrospective, Irving Penn: Centennial. Upon our return we gathered to talk about the exhibit and the influential work of Irving Penn.

If you love photography, the name Irving Penn should be familiar to you, but this retrospective places equal emphasis on work that falls outside the realm of his famed fashion and portraiture for Vogue Magazine and synthesizes his almost 70 years of photography, acquainting us with his still-life, documentary, nudes, and even street photography, as well as with his skills as a printer.

Along with our guests Cory Rice, Jill Waterman, and Akeem Addy, we talk about the works on view in this retrospective-- what impressed us the most, what confused us, what surprised us, and what we learned about the cohesive strength of composition, light, and gesture in Penn’s work and just how influential he has been on all of our photography, whether we realize it or not.

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Guests: Jill Waterman, Cory Rice, Akeem Addy

Photograph: Pablo Picasso at La Californie, Cannes, 1957 by Irving Penn. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, © The Irving Penn Foundation

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0:00.0	You're listening to the B&H Photography Podcast.
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0:08.8	more.
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0:15.4	your iPhone or Android device.
0:17.6	Now here's your host, Alan White.
0:20.1	Greetings and welcome to the B&H Photography Podcast.
0:23.6	On today's episode, we're going into NPR mode.
0:26.2	I'm going to be your host, Terry Gross.
0:28.0	And on today's show, we're going to be talking about the work of photographer Irving Penn
0:32.0	and specifically the retrospective exhibition of his work at the Metropolitan Museum of
0:36.8	Art here in New York City.
0:39.1	The Irving Penn exhibition, recognizing the centennial of his birth, has been a highlight
0:43.2	of the season here in New York.
0:44.9	In the waning days of the show, a group of us from the B&H Explorer team headed over
0:49.1	to the Met to see the show.
0:50.6	The reviews were glowing and we were not disappointed.
0:53.8	If you love photography, the name Irving Penn should not be new to you.
0:57.4	But even if his name does not ring any bells, you have no doubt been influenced by him
1:01.4	indirectly.
1:02.8	This retrospective places equal emphasis on work that falls outside the realm of his
1:07.2	fame, fashion and portraiture for Vogue magazine and synthesizes his almost 70 years of
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