Passage: A Work Record.
PENN, Irving; Introduction by Alexander Liberman.
Passage: A Work Record.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.
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Item Number: 251
First edition. Tall quarto. Signed by Irving Penn on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Irving Penn's continually surprising imagination turns to animal skulls, cigarette butts, multicolored lips, street garbage--odd mementos to "the ultimate sadness of all vanity," as Liberman, editorial director of Conde Nast, writes in his perceptive introduction. Along with a steady stream of fashion photography that resembles a species of cultural anthropology, Penn, as we see here, has recently done powerful color drawings in a biomorphic cubist style. This album includes 71 tipped-in color plates and 397 black-and-whites, along with Penn's running commentary (Publishers Weekly).
