Irving Penn's History

Irving Penn

Irving Penn was born June 16, 1917 and he grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey. When he was young, Penn never thought that he would have become a photographer. When he went to work for Vogue, he was merely a designer, until a person that was working there saw his sense of style and turned him to be one of the top ten designers in the world.
Irving was a fashion photographer that had a recognizable fashion sequence in his photographs. He is recognized in some important collections of Photography like Museum of Modern Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, and Addison Gallery of American Art.
Irving Penn did not have many self portraits of his face. He never liked his face to be shown in any pictures. On Wednesday of October 07, 2009, Irving Penn died, but his photographic designs are still strongly remembered.