The fashion photographer Irving Penn, known for its elegant minimalist portraits, died Wednesday at age 92 years.
Irving Penn has long been associated with the magazine Vogue, where he began working in 1940 and where his reputation grew up around his calm and classical compositions.
He died at his home in New York, announced Wednesday a representative of the Pace-MacGill Gallery where he exhibited his photographs.
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Best known for her glamorous photos of models – as a nude black and white Gisele Bundchen – Irving Penn brought the same elegant simplicity and the precision of its pictures Peruvian peasants or tribesmen of New Guinea.
“Rather than making the spontaneity, Mr. Penn offered the illusion of a photo shoot, her eyes clearly describing the outline of a cloak Balenciaga or a Moroccan djellaba in a way that could almost hypnotize the viewer,” according to the obituary in The New York Times.
“Nothing escaped the frame of his picture unless it is wanted, it is added.
His photographs have regularly reached tens of thousands of dollars at auction. A planned sale of pictures in the auction room at Christie’s New York on Thursday was to present 15 of his shots.
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