Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
Irving Penn Lavender Glory http://doowop.tistory.com/entry/Irving-Penn
Irving Penn photography for Diana Vreeland’s Les belles robes de Paris
IRVING PENN (B. 1917) Poppy: Glowing Embers, New York, 1968  dye-transfer print, printed 1989 http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5056845
spinningbirdkick: Irving Penn / Vogue December 1995. Thank you spinningbirdkick & lushlight(for inspiration)
Barnett Newman by Irving Penn in the Irving Penn Portraits exhibition. [Source: National Portrait Gallery] The artist once said “It is interesting to me to notice how difficult it is for people to take the intense heat and blaze of my color. If my paintings were empty they could take them with ease.”(link)
Moments , photographer Irving Penn , 1st edition, published by CJBucher, Editions Camera Lucerne / Switzerland 1960, text by Alexander Liberman, Rosemary Blackmon and Irving Penn link
Irving Penn Tuberous Begonia
billyjane: Shadow cloche [a hat that’s a veil, a veil that’s a hat] by John-Frederics photo by Irving Penn for Vogue Feb. 1950 thanks to Sophia
Irving Penn
Irving Penn’s “Lion Skull” (1986) resembles a sculpture by Henry Moore. http://articles.sfgate.com/1999-07-29/entertainment/17693199_1_irving-penn-portraits-camera
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