Irving Penn was a photographer whose photos were way ahead of their time and weren't appreciated until the modernist years. He brought increasing drama to the pictures by putting his subjects into tight, unorthodox spaces. While his photography career bloomed, he was known as a post World War II feminine chic and glamour photographer.
At the age of 25, he went to Mexico to be a painter. After a year, he decided that he would not ever be more then a mediocre painter. He has been named one of the top 10 Photographers in the World in a international poll conducted by Popular Magazine. At that time, he said, "I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children."
Irving Penn died on October 7, 2009 in his home in Manhattan at the age of 92. He has pictures in New York, Paris, and London including many museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
"Photographing a cake can be art." --Irving Penn.
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