BIOGRAPHY!
On June 16, 1917 in Plainfield, N.J, Irving Penn was born, he was educated by public schools and later on he attended Museum of Art in Philadelphia from 1934-1938. Penn's first job was graduating in 1938 as an art director for the Junior league magazine, he later on quit and used some saved money to go to Mexico, at the age of 25. Penn later on returned to New York and got and assistant job for Alexander Liberman, the art director for Vogue magazine. A picture of an arranged big brown leather bag, beige scarf, gloves, lemons, oranges, and a huge topaz that Penn took was published as Vogues october issue in 1943 and started Penn's career. He mainly did portraits but threw in some creative stuff from time to time, his portraits where series he did around the world like Peru, London, Paris and New York. Penn started to use his Rollel and made 200 portraits in color and black and white, in a studio he rented from an artist. In the 1950's he founded his own studio in NY, he worked on fashion, commercial and his own personal work for the rest of his career. A lot of his series where mainly for Vogue, like his christmas editions. Penn died in 2009 which spread his work all over the world in famous museums and later on in 2013 the Irving foundation donated 100 images to the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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