Irving Penn (1917-2012)
On June 16, 1917 in Plainfield, New Jersey, Irving Penn was born. He had a brother, Arthur Penn who was born in 1922. In the years 1934 - 1938, Penn attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts. From there he studied drawing, painting, graphics, and industrial arts.
As a student, Penn worked at Harper's Bazaar, where several of his drawings were published.
Penn then worked as a freelancer for two years and made his first amateur photographs. He then started working as an art director at Saks Fifth Avenue in 1940.
He reminded there for a year and traveled a year around the US and Mexican to take numerous pictures and paint.
When he moved back to New York, he offered a position as an associate for Vogue magazine's Art Department. In 1950's Penn found his own studio in New York and started making advertising photographs.
Penn met his spouse, Lisa Fonssagrives during a photo shoot in 1947. They married in the year 1950 and had their first child in 1952.
Penn died on October 7th, 2009 at the age of 92.
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