IRVING PENN AT THE GRAND PALAIS - PARIS

In collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Grand Palais in Paris presents a major retrospective of the photographs of Irving Penn to mark the centennial of the artist's birth.

Over the course of his nearly 70-year career, Irving Penn mastered a pared-down aesthetic of studio photography that is distinguished for its meticulous attention to composition, nuance, detail, and printmaking.

The exhibition will most thoroughly explore the following series: fashion and style quite well known but also portraits of indigenous people in Cuzco, Dahomey (Benin), New Guinea, and Morocco; portraits of cultural figures from Truman Capote to Picasso, Colette, Dali and the very fantastic collection of "Small Trades" portraits of urban labourers (one of my favourite) !

The retrospective includes both masterpieces and hitherto unknown prints from all his major series.

Definitively a personal favourite for the fall in Paris.

At the end of the exhibition, don't miss the photobooth and try yourself at portraiture.

4 shots for 3€

21 September 2017 / 29 January 2018 From 10 am to 8 pm - Closed on Tuesdays

GRAND PALAIS, GALERIES NATIONALES 3, avenue du Général Eisenhower 75008 Paris

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