“Irving Penn,” which opens at San Francisco’s de Young Museum on March 16, reminds us of one crucial thing about Mr. Penn’s work: His images still resonate with contemporary meaning and relevance.
A new survey, “Irving Penn,” opening at San Francisco’s de Young Museum on Saturday reminds us of one crucial thing about Mr. Penn’s work: His images still resonate with contemporary meaning and relevance. Over the course of “Irving Penn,” with its 12 galleries featuring 175 images drawn from his 70-year career, it is clear that few, if anyone, came close to matching the impressive duality of his work: astounding technical virtuosity co-existed with the profoundly curious way he viewed humanity.
Penn would set up the same gray backdrop to shoot the Hells Angels bikers, hippie dropouts, and acid freakout rockers as he would any soignée model in haute couture. It was a constant trope of his portraiture, an act of putting everyone at the same level when in front of him and his camera. But it was also an act of efficiency: Mr. Penn would shoot some of his portraits—the series of tradespeople of Paris, for instance—while waiting for the models to appear.
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