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April 20 2017 - Sunday July 30 2017
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The
Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a major retrospective of the
photographs of Irving Penn to mark the centennial of the artist’s birth. Over
the course of his nearly 70-year career, Irving Penn (1917–2009) mastered a
pared-down aesthetic of studio photography that is distinguished for its
meticulous attention to composition, nuance, and detail. Opening April 24,
2017, Irving Penn: Centennial will be the most comprehensive exhibition to date
of the work of the great American photographer.
The exhibition
follows the 2015 announcement of the landmark promised gift from The Irving
Penn Foundation to The Met of more than 150 photographs by Penn, representing
every period of the artist’s dynamic career with the camera. The gift will form
the core of the exhibition, which will feature more than 200 photographs by
Penn, including iconic fashion studies of Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, the artist's
wife; exquisite still-lifes; Quechua children in Cuzco, Peru; portraits of
urban laborers; female nudes; tribesmen in New Guinea; and color flower
studies. The artist's beloved portraits of cultural figures from Truman Capote,
Picasso, and Colette to Ingmar Bergman and Issey Miyake will also be featured.
Rounding out the exhibition will be photographs by Penn that entered The Met
collection prior to the promised gift.
The
exhibition is made possible by the Terra Foundation for American Art, the
Enterprise Holdings Endowment, and The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation.
It is
organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in collaboration with The Irving
Penn Foundation.
The
catalogue is made possible by the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, Inc., the Mary
C. and James W. Fosburgh Publications Fund, and the Roswell L. Gilpatric
Publications Fund.
Website: www.metmuseum.org
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