Irving Penn
‚Women, Warriors‘

New York

Vogue photographer Irving Penn is honored by a solo show at the Masters Projects. Mainly known for his acute portraits and organized still lives, the exhibition Women, Warriors highlights another side of Penn’s practice: the show reveals pictures that have been taken along his trips to Africa and Oceania in the 1970s.

It was Penn’s successful career at Vogue magazine that offered him the possibilities to travel. With Women, Warriors, the American photographer provides an insight into further topics he focussed on during these travels. Far away from his austere pictures from Pablo Picasso or Martha Graham, this series reflects on indigenous tribes, mainly women. With no commercial aim, the platinum-palladium prints of the ethnographic studies offer another take on Penn’s oeuvre and practice along with some of his famous nude women bodies pictures.

IRVING PENN, Callot Swallow-tail Dress, 1974, Platinum-palladium print, 21 1/2 × 18 in 54.6 × 45.7 cm

IRVING PENN, Sitting Man with Pink Face New Guinea, 1970, Platinum Palladium Print, 20 5/8 × 19 3/8 in 52.4 × 49.2 cm

Masters Projects

February 18 – April 16, 2016

91 Water Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
USA

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