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Irving Penn
The Sculptor of Silence: The Monumental Photography of Irving Penn

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Introduction
Irving Penn (1917 –2009) stands as one of the supreme titans of twentieth-century photography, an auteur capable of radically redefining the boundaries between commercial photography and avant-garde visual art.
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