"Marlene Dietrich" (1948) by Irving Penn. New York Promised Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation. Courtesy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art / © The Irving Penn Foundation.
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Irving Penn: Centennial

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In honor of the Irving Penn Centennial, this retrospective covers nearly the entirety of the artist's seventy year career owing to a gift of photographs from the Irving Penn Foundation that represent every period of his career. These one hundred and fifty images form the exhibit's core, and include fashion studies of Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, the artist's wife; Quechua children in Cuzco, Peru; and portraits of people from urban laborers and tribesmen in New Guinea to Truman Capote, Picasso, and Ingmar Bergman.

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The Met

Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. Manhattan, NY, 10028

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Photography & Media
Museums
International Collections
Accessibility
Large Print
Braille
Open and/or Closed Captioned
Assistive Listening System
Sign Language Interpretation
Wheelchair Accessible
Adaptive Activities
Audio Description
Neurodiverse Programming
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