Live now through March 28 for bidding, Artnet’s Important Photographs auction features a diverse range of prominent works by classic and contemporary photographers—with several iconic images by master ...

Irving Penn was an American photographer known for both his commercial and fine art work. Using both large format and 35mm cameras, he regularly turned his lens on street debris, animal skulls, and ...

Hells Angel (Doug), San Francisco, 1967. Gelatin silver print. Image: 18 13/16x 19 11/16 in. (47.8 x 50 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of The Irving Penn ...

Despite — or, perhaps, because of — the rise in artificially made images, photography is suddenly in the spotlight, in galleries in New York and beyond. By Julia Halperin The 900 items from his ...

“I myself have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument that it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel,” reads a quote from Irving Penn printed on the de Young Museum’s walls, ...

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A new survey, “Irving Penn,” opening at San Francisco’s de Young Museum on Saturday (it will be up through July 21) reminds us of one crucial thing about Mr. Penn’s work: His images still resonate ...

Fashion and celebrity photographer Irving Penn died Wednesday at age 92. William Stapp, the founding curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, remembers Penn. From NPR News, this is ALL ...