Irvin Penn - Momenti - 1960

Moments. Eight essays in images and words by Irving Penn. Introduction by Alexander Liberman. Text drafted by Rosemary Blackmon. Milan, Domus Editorial, 1960. First Italian Edition. Size 34 x 25.5 cm. Hardcover in cloth with dust jacket. Rigid publisher's slipcase. Pages numbered 183. Photographic reproductions in black and white and in color, some double-page. Attached a loose brochure with technical data of the published photographs. In very good condition—dust jacket with two small cuts on the spine. Auction with no reserve!


The book "Moments" by Irving Penn (the Italian edition of the famous Moments Preserved from 1960) collects eight visual essays that range from fashion to portraits of major 20th-century figures.
Among the famous figures photographed and included in the work are:
Writers and intellectuals: Truman Capote (portrayed in the famous 'corner'), T.S. Eliot, Susan Sontag (with her son David), Anaïs Nin, John Updike, and Carson McCullers.
Visual artists: Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Georgia O'Keeffe, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, Joan Miró (with his daughter Dolores), Alberto Giacometti, Willem de Kooning, and Barnett Newman.
Musicians and directors: Igor Stravinsky, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Ingmar Bergman, Martin Scorsese and Rudolf Nureyev.
Fashion and cinema icons: Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn (model and wife of Penn), Christian Dior, Grace Kelly, Al Pacino, Isabella Rossellini, Nicole Kidman and Spencer Tracy.
The volume also includes portraits of ordinary people and workers photographed during his travels, such as the subjects of the series "Small Trades" (little trades) and populations from remote places such as Dahomey or New Guinea.