Irving Penn - PASSAGGI - 1990

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Irving Penn
Publisher: Leonardo Editore / Callaway Editions
1991

Passaggi is one of the most complete and celebrated monographs dedicated to the work of Irving Penn, published on the occasion of a major museum retrospective. The volume traces the photographer's entire career, from his beginnings in fashion and portraiture to ethnographic works, still lifes, and the famous studio series.

The sequence of images highlights the author's extraordinary formal coherence: an essential, rigorous, and timeless style, capable of transforming every subject into an icon. Passaggi is regarded as a fundamental text in the history of twentieth-century photography and an indispensable book for collectors and scholars.

Irving Penn (1917–2009) was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. Active for decades at Vogue, he redefined fashion photography, portraiture, and still life through a minimalist language and extreme formal precision.
Their works are part of the permanent collections of the world's leading international museums, and their work continues to be an absolute reference in contemporary photography.

A definitive monograph on an absolute master of photography.