Lot 45 When I saw Diana Vreeland's show for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The 10s, 20s, 30s, I felt a thrill I had not as a fashion photographer known before. A luxurious clothes-world had once existed (and not so long at that), apparently without concern for cost, where it seemed no material was too expensive to use, no amount of labor too dear to employ, no designer's fantasy too extravagant to realize.
For personal pleasure, I wanted to study these clothes on the ground glass of a camera, and as a practical matter the thought of making a book of the resulting pictures came to mind.
Irving Penn
For personal pleasure, I wanted to study these clothes on the ground glass of a camera, and as a practical matter the thought of making a book of the resulting pictures came to mind.
Irving Penn
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Vionnet Dress with Fan, 1977
Closed14 April 2010
Price Realised
USD 47,500