Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-50

by Maria Morris Hambourg

One of the world's preeminent photographers, Irving Penn is famous for portraiture, still life, and other commercial work. He is less well known as a superb photographer of the female nude. His most important pictures in this genre were made in 1949-50 during intense sessions with artist's models that were essentially an artistic antidote to the ephemeral fashion world. Charged with powerful, physical, and sexual energy, yet somehow chaste, the images...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821227874
• ISBN13: 9780821227879
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Bulfinch Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 11.5" x 11.8"