EARTHLY BODIES: IRVING PENN'S NUDES 1949-50 (2002) magazines A brilliant and important publication

A brilliant and important publication for any photographer or curator

Twin Peaks

often through the words of the “punk fans”

this book is exquisitely designed and full of all mediums from film stills

Burroughs and Truman Capote

EARTHLY BODIES: IRVING PENN'S NUDES 1949-50 (2002) magazines A brilliant and important publicationA striking, deeply tactile monograph uncovering Penns radical, formerly suppressed series of studio nudes executed between 1949 and 1950. Moving away from the sharp elegance of his commercial Vogue assignments, Penn spent months exploring the fleshy, sculptural topography of the female torso. The resulting images are heavily overexposed, bleached, and re developed thus transforming soft human forms into high contrast, modern stone abstractions