The Portraits of Irving Penn

The Art of Photography

Ted Forbes

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4.5 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Irving Penn was one of the most important editorial photographers of the mid-twentieth century. Equally comfortable in both commercial work and fine art, Penn continued to develop and push the limits of portrait and still-life work until his death in 2009. Irving Penn :: Beyond Beauty on Amazon http://amzn.to/21cgMZs 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	And the Today we're going to take a look at the work of Irving Penn who was one of the more
0:21.5	significant editorial photographers of the 20th century.
0:24.8	Now to me there are two very important things about Penn's work.
0:28.1	First of all, you have a photographer who was equally comfortable in both the commercial world
0:32.0	and the fine art world.
0:33.4	A lot of the images that we're going to look at today were originally created as magazine
0:36.8	spreads and today we see them on the walls of art galleries and museums.
0:40.3	I think that's very significant because there aren't a lot of artists who are able to cross that bridge
0:44.5	Second of all I think it's very impressive that Penn was a photographer who continued to evolve his entire life
0:50.1	He started out as a graphic designer sort of fell into being a photographer while he was at Vogue magazine, became one of the best photographers in the mid 20th century, and then went on to become an excellent printer.
1:01.0	By the 1970s, he was experimenting
1:03.1	with platinum and palladium process,
1:05.0	his use of color work.
1:06.3	A lot of these things are just,
1:08.2	they show an expansion of an artist
1:09.9	throughout their entire career.
1:11.1	In fact, before he died when he was in his 70s,
1:13.2	that's an age where most people are starting to slow down,
1:15.9	and Penn was going at full throttle his entire life.
1:18.2	To give you some context around Penn's work,
1:20.4	I think it's important to look at what was happening in the fashion magazine
1:23.6	industry in New York at that time. The two big competitors were Harper's
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