Influential Portraits; Irving Penn

Irving Penn was born on June 16, 1970 in Plainfield New Jersey and died on October 7, 2009.  Penn was best known for his fashion photography. Originally penn wanted to become a painter but had got a job with Vouge magazine in the 1940s and then focoused on photograhy. He only shot in black and white. He was one of the first photographers to pose a subject against a simple grey or white backdrop. He had also took maby Penn had photographed many famous people.

 

My group has been inspired by irving penn because he had took amazing close up portraits. Penn had insipred us to take only take up close focous portaits.  He insipred us to shoot in black an and white. Eventhough a picture is not in color it can still be powerful and say alot about a person. Penn insipred us to take photos with the subject looking away.  We realized that taking a photo with somone looking away usually comes out better. I believe the pictures had came out better because the person was less nervous and wasn't concerned about blinking. He has also inspired us to have our subject with a serious face. Serious faces make beauty stand out more and allows you too see someones eyes better and facial beauty.

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