Irving Penn: New and Unseen; Process

“Sitting for Penn is a legendary and controlled experience. Each of these prints in different, yet all reflect Penn’s insistence on getting what he wanted, or what he saw as the potential of the sitter emerging from that corner.” — Peter MacGill  

This publication presents photographs by Irving Penn from the two-part exhibition held at Pace Gallery in New York in 1999, including portraits of luminaries like Cindy Sherman and Richard Avedon and the Platinum Test Material series, which provides a window into his experimental process. Accompanying the images are responses written by a range of artists and curators.