In this undated image released by the Irving Penn Studio, photographer Irving Penn is shown at a photo shoot with a New Guinea mud man and a child. 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, Oct. 7, 2009, at his Manhattan home. He was 92.
In this magazine cover released by the Conde Nast Archive, the April 1, 1950 cover of "Vogue" with photography by Irving Penn, is shown. 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, Oct. 7, 2009, at his Manhattan home. He was 92.
In this magazine cover released by the Conde Nast Archive, the first cover photo by photographer Irving Penn is shown on the Oct. 1, 1943 cover of "Vogue". 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, Oct. 7, 2009, at his Manhattan home. He was 92
In this publicity image released by Christie's, Irving Penn's 1948 photograph, "Cuzco Children," platinum-palladium print, is shown. The image depicting two impoverished Peruvian children posing, sold for $529,000, setting a world auction record in 2008. 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, Oct. 7, 2009, at his Manhattan home. He was 92. Thirteen of Penn's photographs are being auctioned Thursday at Christie's.
In this publicity image released by Christie's, a 1971 image of two Moroccan women, "Guedras in the Wind," a platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, by Irving Penn is shown. 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 Manhattan home. He was 92. "Guedras in the Wind" is scheduled to be auctioned by Christie's in New York on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Christie's, Irving
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