Irving Penn's flower studies are the focus of a joint exhibition (with Richard Learoyd) at Hamiltons London, on show until September.
pursued a version of photographic truth that filtered through all his areas of interest. And these were many and varied.
Though he would only start on them in earnest in 1967, his flower pictures were no exception. Like a taxonomist identifying a rare and exotic species, his rigorous observation allowed his audience to see a rose as a rose but from a new angle, a fresh and particular point of view—a Penn portrait, perhaps.commissioned nine annual portfolios of pictures devoted to one flower. These were a Christmas gift to readers, published each December until 1975 .
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