Great black and white Photographers Part 2

Irving penn was an amazing photographer He was celebrated as one of the Vogue magazine's top photographers for more than 60 years. Penn was also a very private man who avoided limelight and did his work with dedication. At the time photography was a way of communication, and he approached it that way in his professional way and personal work.

Penn was born in 1917 in Plainfield New Jersey to immigrate parents, he attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts from 1934-38 and studied with Alexey Brodovitch and their design labratory. Brodovitch taught him modern art and design through magazine, architecture, and photography. Penn went to New York as Brochovitchs assistant at Harpers Bazaar. Penn then went to Mexico in 1941 traveling to American south to take photos. Lisa Penn's wife died in 1992 and had really hard times going through it. In 2009 Penn died in New York at the age of 92. During Penn's lifetime he established the Irving Penn Foundation, which grew so much and who carry Penn's legacy.   https://www.irvingpenn.org/biography/
https://www.irvingpenn.org/biography/

These three were my favorites!