PHO150 Digital Photography: Irving Penn

The portraits include Merce Cunningham, Alfred Hitchcock Salvador Dali, Georgia O'Keeffe, and John Updike, among many others.

In a collaborative performance between artist and model, internationally renowned photographer Irving Penn has produced a remarkable set of portraits of voluptuous dancer Alexandra Beller. With 27 tritone plates.

Originally published in 1997 to accompany an exhibition, this book examines Penn’s remarkable and wide-ranging career and his uncompromising artistic vision. With nearly 200 captivating photographs that span the entire scope of his artistic production--including poetic portraits of Cecil Beaton, Marcel Duchamp, Arshile Gorky, Elsa Schiaparelli, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Truman Capote--the book features essays by distinguished scholars and reflections by individuals who have known him well or collaborated with him.

Featuring 250 photographs by over 150 different artists, this book surveys fine art photography in American throughout the 20th century.

American photography from the turn of the century through the mid-1960s offers one of the richest and most coherent traditions in the history of the medium. This book explores that tradition in depth through superb reproductions of 183 photographs from the outstanding collection of The Museum of Modern Art." Major figures, such as Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Harry Callahan, and Robert Frank, are each represented by six or more photographs. Dozens of other distinguished photographers are included as well, and many remarkable but unfamiliar pictures join the landmark works.

Published in conjunction with a world-touring photographic exhibition, this handsome volume chronicles the evolution of advertising photography from straightforward 19th century product images, to present-day work by Bert Stern, Henry Wolf, Irving Penn and others who create an entire advertisement in a single sophisticated photograph.

This book features portraits of 50 legendary 20th-century photographers. It is a homage to masters of the art of photography whose work has made history and influenced the art of later generations of photographers.

Walker Evans & Company focuses on Evans as a central figure in the arts of the 1920s and 30s, and includes works in photography and other mediums that influenced Evans or were influenced by him, or which resonate in a significant way with aspects of his imagery, sensibility and style. Among the other artists whose work is featured are: Eugene Atget, Mathew Brady, Stuart Davis, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Edward Hopper, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, August Sander, Andy Warhol and Edward Weston.