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Avendon, Richard

Bailey, David

Beaton, Cecil

Bourdin, Guy

Blumenfeld, Erwin

Coffin, Clifford

Dahl-Wolfe, Louise

De Mayer, Adolfe

Donovan, Terence

Duffy, Brian

Frissell, Tony

Horst, Horst P

Hoyningen-Huene

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Maywald, Will

Hoyningen-Huene

Maywald, Will

Moon, Sarah

Morel, Jean

Munkacsi, Martin

Newton, Helmut

Parkinson, Norman

Penn, Irwin

Ray, Man

Steichen, Edward

Stern, Bert

Turbeville, Deborah

PENN, IRVING

No fashion photographer worked harder than Irving Penn to bring out the distinctive quality of each of his models. Sometimes he would begin his sttings early in the morning but it was often late afternoon before he was satisfied with any of his pictures.

Many of his pictures were black and white, severe in mood and strong in form. The pictures on either side of the heading show Jean Patchel, a famous model of the 1950s. It was the first black and white photograph specially commissioned to replace the colour illustrations Vogue had used on its cover since 1909.

The symmetry of the photograph is broken only by the model's sidelong glance. To help get the contrasts he wanted, Penn used black lipstick improvised from mascara.

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