Irving Penn photographs 1964-1986

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Irving Penn photographs 1964-1986

http://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/viewItem/MSS%207868

1 oversize box; (3.25 linear ft.)

L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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Penn, Irving

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Irving Penn (1917-2009) was an American fashion photographer for Vogue Magazine. Irving Penn was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, on June 16, 1917. His family moved to Philadelphia shortly thereafter. He attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art in 1934 and was a taught by Alexey Brodovich to be a designer; he became Brodovich's assistant in 1937 for one year. He tried his hand at painting, thinking this was his true vocation, but realized that he was wron...