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Irving Penn: Platinum Prints.
by GREENOUGH, Sarah (text) & Irving Penn (photographs), with foreword by Earl A. Powell III
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, (2005). First edition. 4to, vii & 191 pp, profusely illustrated Publisher's tan cloth lettered in black & plum, in pictorial dust jacket.
Small remainder mark at the bottom edge of the text block, otherwise fine in very good, lightly soiled dust jacket with slight edge wear.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art June 19 to October 2, 2005
"In a career that spans more than fifty years, American photographer Irving Penn (born 1917) has created some of the most arresting portraits, influential fashion studies, and provocative still lifes of the twentieth century In the early 1960s when he turned from magazine work to platinum printing, he reinterpreted his earlier photographs, transforming them into the independent works of art that have been celebrated for the last thirty years ." ~excerpted from the dust jacket
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- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 875
- Title
- Irving Penn: Platinum Prints.
- Author
- GREENOUGH, Sarah (text) & Irving Penn (photographs), with foreword by Earl A. Powell III
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- National Gallery of Art
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D.C.
- Date Published
- (2005)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Photography, Irving Penn, Fashion, Counterculture, Rock & Roll
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography Books; Fashion, Coiffure;
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
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