Irving Penn - Worlds in a small room - 1974

"As an ambulant studio photographer".
76 black-and-white images of people in their local clothing from Cusco, Peru, Crete, Dahomey, Nepal, New Guinea, Morocco...
Isolated from any exotic or folkloric context, each subject was immortalized for their mere presence, their features, their posture and their adornments.
Back of the jacket is yellowed.
No deliveries to the United States due to the new legislation.
A fine copy.

On assignment for Vogue in the 1950s and 1960s, Irving Penn roamed the world as a "traveling studio photographer", setting up a tent to photograph the peoples he met.
Series on the "little trades" of Paris, London and New York and the Hell's Angels in San Francisco.
A masterpiece of the late 20th-century photobook.
Text by Irving Penn.