We tried something a little different with this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast. We took three writers from our Explora blog along with us as we visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the much praised photography retrospective, Irving Penn: Centennial.
Upon our return we gathered to talk about the exhibit and the influential work of Irving Penn. If you love photography, the name Irving Penn should be familiar to you, but this retrospective places equal emphasis on work that falls outside the realm of his famed fashion and portraiture for Vogue Magazine and synthesizes his almost 70 years of photography, acquainting us with his still-life, documentary, nudes, and even street photography, as well as with his skills as a printer.
Along with our guests Cory Rice, Jill Waterman, and Akeem Addy, we talk about the works on view in this retrospective– what impressed us the most, what confused us, what surprised us, and what we learned about the cohesive strength of composition, light, and gesture in Penn’s work and just how influential he has been on all of our photography, whether we realize it or not
Guests: Jill Waterman, Cory Rice, Akeem Addy
Photo Credits:
Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, ©The Irving Penn Foundation
Courtesy of © Condé Nast:
(Rocha’s Mermaid Dress, Fishmonger, Cuzco Children, After-Dinner Games, Glove and Shoe)
Photograph: Irving Penn’s Rolleiflex camera on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photograph by John Harris
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