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Irving Penn Research Paper

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Irving Penn was born on June 16th of 1917 in Plainfield, New Jersey and passed away on October 7th of 2009 in New York City, New York. He attended the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1934 to 1938 where he learned advertising design. Penn went on to become a renewed American photographer, known specifically for his fashion photography portraits and still life images. He was a master of both black and white and color photography. Over the duration of his career, Penn worked in prestigious brands such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. However, later on he uses television commercials to express his unique talent. As art critic. Amy Rule states, “Penn is one of the most imitated among contemporary photographers, his work has been widely recognized

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