We'll make it work. Come on in. Come on closer, closer. Closer. You got to see a pen back there.

But I don't know how long.

So we're at the Dallas Museum of Art today and a couple weeks ago we had a meetup and we had full 30 people attend and this is my friend Sue Canterbury who is the curator of American art at the Dallas Museum of Art and a long time friend of mine. We've worked together quite a bit in the past and she was gracious enough to give us a tour on the meetup,

but for those of you who weren't able to come and would like to see what the show's all about,

we're going to take a look at Irving Penn and get a tour from the curator herself.

So thank you very much, Sue. You're most welcome. As Irving Penn was heading through the American South on his way to Mexico,

you see coming forward not only the influence of Walker Evans and some of the shots he

did of the people that he encountered along the way, but you also see that

continuing threat of surrealism. It starts from the beginning, the influence of Eugene Nagee in his earliest works, and keeps falling forward. It's a thread that will run throughout his career, sometimes below the surface

and sometimes more obvious.

This particular one, you know,

it's quite different from the other things

that we've seen before it.

And when I look at, I see it as basically a very prescient type of photograph.

If you were to imagine this in color, you can see how it would fit absolutely perfectly within his collar work of like the 70s and 80s.

This was more, you know, it struck Penn more deeply in 1983 than it did in a way in 1942.

And so essentially he goes back,

pulls this picture forward in Princeton in 1983. And that's something else about Penn too.

Aside from changing processes he would visit pictures and decide you know that

would that would be a much better picture in Platinum than a Jelton silver print.

And so he would change it up.

And also, again, something such as this, revisiting his work and realizing that's a really great picture and it appealed

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