Irving Penn: La master of photography!!

Black & White Vogue.

"A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart, and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it." -Irving Penn

Flower Child 

I  was flipping through a bunch of old Vogues my sister had kindly given me to browse for inspiration, photos I liked, and fashion I would like to try to mimic in my life. I love to sit down with a cup of very sugary earl gray, some music playing, -preferable something soft, not anything with a quick beat that will tempt me to get distracted and start dancing (which I tend to do quit often)- and flip through the glossy pages and dream of what a well dressed brat I would be if I was rich. So it was in midst of the November 2009's issue and my favorite Adele cd I came across a article written by an editor who was a friend, and co-worker of "Irving Penn", (1917-2009) who had simply died  of old age at 92. Now I was intrigued, I had reconized a few of his pictures from before, and his name was also reconizable, so I read on. The article was what you would mostly expect for a biography, talked about how he worked, told some stories, etc. He was a rather independant man! He wouldn't let others push him around, he was one of the first photogs. to do some completly different things with photography, things that have never been done before, and still hasn't been quite equal. He was incredible at what he did in my opinion! His art really touched me in a strange sense,  I couldn't help but be amazed at how different others can think, and I couldn't help but feel jealouse, sometimes I long for my thought patterns to be different to see things I see in a different way. Have you ever had a thing or person that you see everyday, and then one day your just sitting/standing there looking at it for a while, and its details remain the same in a sense but you begin to see it in a different way? If not, then I must be an absolute weirdo, because this happens to me with everything.

Maybe it has to do with the sort of mood, attitude you happen to be in? Maybe I just have a really open mind?

Majesty.

  Anyways, back to Penn, he has become my new favorite photographer.... admitly I never had a  actual favorite before.  I have always admired photography, and I had always though it would be a cool job even though I personaly believe I don't have the talent nor aspect for it, but I never really looked at their names or researched more of their work.
  I was talking with one friend over the phone (talking as always) and she said the she didn't really qualify photography as a true art. This I don't agree with, maybe I would have when I was younger when you took one look at a picture and it simply was a moment captured as what it was, when we were kids things like that didn't have as many reasons/depictions as they do to us now. Like our aspect of boys when we were younger, in my case I just thought of them as weird looking girls who were more fun to play with actual girls and of course the idea of kissing one grossed me out quit much. As we get older, mature, we begin to see the other sides of things, began to feel for things in a whole different way, even our tastes in food, colors, clothes changes. Or is it just society changing that for us? Am I even making any sense? It is *checks clock* pretty late at night... actually it's not really I just would like to blame my babbling on that. Haha.

Nicole Kidman. A portrait by Irving Penn.

      

  One thing about Irving that interested me was that he refused to photograph any celebrities. He said that it was society wanted to see, the faces we were supposed to see, be brainwashed into seeing, and there was no creativity in it. His editor did talk him into doing a session with Nicol Kidman after showing him a picture of her (which happened to have her with a fake nose), he agreed to doing one with Nicole... if she wore the fake nose.  That just makes me laugh. I'm officialy obsessed with Penn for moments time.

  
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