SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- In some ways, walking through the Irving Penn exhibit at San Francisco's de Young Museum is like taking a magazine cover tour of 20th-century America. From the glitzy post-war ...

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 ...

NEW YORK Irving Penn, whose photographs revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether he was shooting celebrity portraits, fashion, still life or remote places of the world, died Wednesday at his ...

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, ...

Unprecedented Sale and Exhibition in October to Feature 70 Works of Exceptional Provenance and Significance NEW YORK, Sept. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- This fall, Phillips will host Visual Language: The ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dozens of portraits by Irving Penn, one of the most prolific and important photographers of the 20th century, will be auctioned at Christie's tomorrow in the biggest single sale ...

Over 13 years from 1987 to 1999, photographer Irving Penn and fashion designer Issey Miyake created an extraordinary collection of over 250 images. Their relationship was unique: Miyake supplied ...

Last month, at the opening of the Irving Penn exhibition at the Getty Center, the celebrated 92 year-old photographer was not in attendance. We were told that he hates to fly, which shouldn't come as ...

Irving Penn is widely recognized as one of the 20th century's greatest photographers. Vogue's longest-standing contributor, Penn revolutionized fashion photography in the postwar era. Using neutral ...