"IRVING PENN PHOTOGRAPHS. A DONATION IN MEMORY OF LISA FONSSAGRIVES-PENN" par Ulf Hård af Segerstad & Jean-Erik Lundström. Edition Raster Forlag en collaboration avec Moderna Museet, Stockholm. 1995. Imprimé en Italie. Fort petit in-4 carré, couverture toilée noire sous jaquette titrée. 272 pages. Texte bilingue Suédois / Anglais de Ulf Hård af Segerstad et de Jean-Erik Lundström, avant-propos par Björn Springfeldt, illustré de 100 reproductions photographiques hors texte, 90 en noir & blanc et 10 en couleurs, par Irving Penn. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l’exposition éponyme itinérante qui débuta au Moderna Museet, Stockholm, du 26 Décembre 1995 au 03 Mars 1996. 

 

"Irving Penn is one of our century’s most influential and important photographers. The one hundred photographs in Irving Penn’s donation to Moderna Museet are a most representative selection of five decades of work. The choice of motifs ranges from the world of fashion to the world of nomads or Morocco, from urban elegance to discarded cigarette butts, from naked bodies to dressed up celebrities… Each subject, each human being appears to be detached, like a phenomenon; like a unique, timeless moment. Each image is like a separate thing, carried by its own lustre… Penn’s gaze never wanders. A Penn photograph etches itself permanently in one’s consciousness: it demands – from itself and from the viewer – absolute presence. A stoical passion before the objects, bodies, faces both disarms and challenges those who encounter his pictures.”

 

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