Living Sculptures
Pace Gallery in New York City presents an exhibition by photographer Irving Penn, spanning 70 years of his career, including fashion, still lives, and portrait series that spanned from his ethnographic inquiries to the most iconic celebrities.
Irving Penn’s daring eye transformed fashion photography in the postwar era. Refusing any type of boundary, categorization or hierarchy, his work continued until the artist’s death in 2009. Irving Penn’s celebrated sculptural use of light matched his capability to connect emotionally with the sitters of his portraits, and create a space for their freedom of expression.
Alexandra Beller, New York, 1999
Miles Davis , New York, 1986
Single Oriental Poppy, New York, 1968
Curated by artist Hank Willis Thomas, the installation of the exhibition employs walls that intersect to form acute angles, replicating the structure of plywood flats that Penn used for many of his studio portraits, and amplifying it beyond the photographs’ frames.
Three Dahomey Girls (With Bowls), Dahomey, 1967
Molyneux Pocket Detail, Paris, 1950
Jessye Norman, New York, 1963
