An accessible overview of the work of legendary American photographer Irving Penn Famous for his fashion portraits and experimentation with still life images, Irving Penn (1917–2009) ranks as one of the foremost photographers of the 20th century. In an illustrious career that spanned nearly 70 years, Penn was a master of both black-and-white and color photography, and his revival of platinum printing in the 1960s and 1970s was a catalyst for significant change in the art world. Drawing from the extensive holdings of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, including a major gift from The Irving Penn Foundation, this magnificent catalogue compiles 161 of Penn’s iconic images, including a number of unpublished works. Beautifully designed and illustrated, Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty accompanies the first retrospective exhibition of Penn’s work in nearly 20 years and features photographs from all stages of his career, including street scenes from the late 1930s, celebrity portraits, Parisian fashion photographs, and more private studio images. Merry A. Foresta’s captivating essay introduces this photographer to a younger generation and delves into Penn’s use of photography to respond to social and cultural change, speaking to the depths of human existence.

Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty

Arts & Photography

Foresta, Merry

Photography & Video

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Man Ray

Offers a brief profile of the American photographer and shows examples of his portraits, still lifes, nudes, and abstracts

MAN RAY

Pantheon

Examines all aspects of the artist's production and discusses his connections with artists and radicals in pre-World War I New York, in Paris between the wars, and in Hollywood after World War II

Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray

Shattuck, Roger

Phillips, Sandra S.

Foster, Stephen C.

Klüver, Billy

Naumann, Francis

Turner, Elizabeth H.

History & Criticism

Abbeville Pr

Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography

Three noted academics describe a new exhibit for the National Museum of American Art that uses the landscape photography of the eighties to show how visual artists have attempted to grapple with environmental issues.

Marling, Karal Ann

Gould, Stephen Jay.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

National Museum of American Art/U of NM Press

Three noted academics describe a new exhibit for the National Museum of American Art that uses the landscape photography of the eighties to show how visual artists have attempted to grapple with environmental issues. Simultaneous.

University of New Mexico Press

Examines all aspects of the artist's production and discusses his connections with artists and radicals in pre-World War I New York, in Paris between the wars, and in Hollywood after World War II

Martin, Julie

Lkuver, Billy

Individual Artists

From stunning panoramas and majestic bridges to nuclear waste dumpsites, Between Home and Heaven captures the compelling complexity of contemporary landscape photography. Catalogue accompanying the exhibition in the National Museum of American Art.

Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography from the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Collection of the National Museum of A

Smithsonian Inst Natl Museum of

Book by Klett, Mark, Foresta, Merry

Capital View: A New Panorama of Washington, D.C.

Klett, Mark

History

National Museum of American Art

Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art brings together over 120 works of art that explore the universal human experiences of struggle, transcendence, and salvation. Drawn from the collection of Washington D.C.-based Julia (Judy) Norrell, these inspiring works illustrate the essential common threads that unite people of all cultures, irrespective of their politics, race, or religion.

Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art

Serwer, Jacquelyn Days

Roth, Paul

Norrell, Julia J.

Merrell Publishers

The social class that Tina Barney photographs might well be called the flaky upper crust. Originally part of that culture herself, Barney started out making pictures of her own tony family, then other American Eastern seaboard swells, and now she turns her lens on a Grand Tour of European grand dames and hommes. Theatrically posed, but catching the intruding serendipitous gesture, her pictures are at once distant and intimately funny, Olympian and down-to-earth, imperious and impetuous. A young man in gold-bedecked bullfighting regalia poses before a sumptuous curtain, his hauteur faintly ridiculous outside of the bullring. A French father leans a little too hard on an heirloom chair, while his son beside him seems to wipe his nose in a decidedly undignified way.

Tina Barney: The Europeans

Steidl/Barbican Art Gallery, London

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Foresta, Merry. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Foresta, Merry