Ricki Cepero
HUA 130
11/10/16
Who is Irving Penn? Irving Penn is an American photographer whose intentions were to become a painter, but when he was twenty six he took a offer to design photographic covers for the magazine Vogue. Soon after, Penn started photographing his own ideas for covers and then established himself as a fashion photographer.
Irving Penn was born on June 16th 1917 in Plainfield, New Jersey. His younger brothers name is Arthur Penn who is the motion picture director. Penn attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Art for four years in 1934. He studied art design and trained to become an art director. When graduating in 1938, his first job was the art director of the "Junior League magazine". Penn moved to Mexico
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after quitting his job when he was just 25 years old, where he was just focused on painting. When moving back to New York a man named Alexander Liberman had a interest in Penns work. Liberman was the art director of Vogue who then hired Penn as his assistant. After hearings Penns suggestions and opinions on the covers for Vogue, Liberman asked Penn to take the photos himself. Due to his experience from his drawings and art background Penn put together a Still Life which made the cover of Vogue for the issue of October 1st 1943. This photo contained a big brown leather bag, beige scarf and gloves, lemons, oranges, and a huge topaz which was the start of Irving Penn's career. In 1950 Irving Penn married the model Lisa Fonssagrives which he photographed most of the time. Some of his best photos are of her. Also in the 1950s Penn brought his own studio in New York where he proceeded to create his fashion, commercial and personal projects for the rest of his life. Page Break When Penn Photographed, he used a grey backdrop for all his subjects to stand out the same.
His work was still very interesting although the subject was almost always the center of attention. Penn was one of the first photographers to do this simple white or grey backdrop and use it effectively. Penn's work was best known for his fashion photography, but some of best work also includes portraits of celebrities, photographs of different ethnicities from all over the world, and still lifes of food, bones, metales and randomly found objects. Irving Penn can make a simple photo of fruits look like a beautiful painting. Penn states "Photographing a cake can be art." His work has great detail and his very abstract with lines and volume.When taking a portrait of someone, Penn would like to capture the nature look of the person rather than the face or pose they wanted everyone to see. As Irving Penn once said "Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world. ...Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to …show more content…
believe." Image In this photo by Irving Penn, the subject is a girl with freckles all over her face. I think he's embracing the girls unique look as it is rare to see people with many freckles like the ones in this photo. Her eyes are what capture my attention because they are glossy and if you look close enough you can see a reflection of something or someone in her eyes. She looks very mellow and comfortable but her face also gives a dreamy look. This is a nice photo, simple but a lot is going on at the same time. Due to her facial features you can tell that the women is African American. Image This Photo by Irving Penn was most famous black and white cover for vogue, This was the issue of vogue in April 1950. This photo is of Jean Patchett in a dress inspired by Christian Dior. This photo has very high contrast, make the subject almost look as if she is drawn. Being that you can't see not facial structures makes the picture interesting because of the face neat over her. Also the way that she is not looking into the camera but instead to the side shows that she is important and famous. Image In this photo by Irving Penn it is a skull, a wine glass with a cigarette on top of it and pills laying around. Notice in all three photos especially this one that Penn is using a simple background making the subjects stand out. I think the meaning of this photo was to say that all the drinking, smoking and medication you take is just going to kill you in the end with the skull symbolizing death. I like that he made the photo so interesting with just using a glass, cigarette and skull. The skull was a good touch because its creepy looking but it still fits in with the photo. Page Break Being that Irving Penn spent his photography career in New York City I instantly felt that he was a good Photographer to speak about.
Seeing his photos made it even more interesting to learn more about him. Being that most of his best photos were portraits I related well with his work because I like taking portraits as well. I like that Penn uses simple backgrounds in his pictures letting the subject speak for itself. Penn shows perfection in his work, with many detail in the postures and style of his subject. It's cool to me that Penn did not limit himself to just one thing being that he photographed everything. He can go from still-lifes of vegetables to a celebrity or a random person. Irving Penn inspired my work to let my subject be the main focus and the background to be simple.
Irving Penn now has his own foundation. He is one if not the most important modern masters of photography. Penn is a inspiration to photographers of all genres with his work of portraits, still lifes, and fashion photos. He was Vogues magazine photographer along with many personal projects that he created. Irving Penn's work has a huge impact as well as playing a roll in the world's most renowned public and private photography collections. Quoted from Clinique "Irving Penn gave us the truth and made it so inviting we never needed the fantasy. He transformed beauty for us and the
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It was not until a trip to Japan with her mother after her sophomore year of studying painting at the San Francisco Art Institute that Annie Leibovitz discovered her interest in taking photographs. In 1970 Leibovitz went to the founding editor of Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner, who was impressed by Leibovitz’s work. Leibovitz’s first assignment from Wenner was to shoot John Lennon. Leibovitz’s black-and-white portrait of Lennon was the cover of the January 21, 1971 issue. Ironically, Leibovitz would be the last person to capture her first celebrity subject. Two years later she made history by being named Rolling Stone’s first female chief photographer. Leibovitz’s intimate photographs of celebrities had a big part in defining the Rolling Stone look. In 1983 Leibovitz joined Vanity Fair and was made the magazine’s first contributing photographer. At Vanity Fair she became known for her intensely lit, staged, and alluring portraits of celebrities. With a broader range of subjects available at Vanity Fair, Leibovitz’s photographs for Vanity Fair ranged from presidents to literary icons to t...
He wore a white button up shirt with black dress pants, a tie, and spotlessly clean shoes. His face lit up as he was looking through the pictures he just took. He faced his camera screen towards me. On the screen I saw silhouettes of people and sailboats with their reflection glistening on the water, as if it was a mirror. After viewing his photographs, you could tell that Paris has a very unique perspective on the world.
Arthur Miller was born on October 17, 1915, to Isidore and Augusta Barnett Miller. He was born into a family in which his mother was a teacher and his father, a prosperous manufacturer. He was not the greatest student (having failed Algebra three times) but instead was more interested in athletics during his teenage years. Having lost all of the family fortunes in the Stock Market Crash of 1929, after high school, Arthur went to work in a warehouse dealing with automobile parts. It was there that he picked up a copy of The Brothers Karamazov which influenced him into becoming a writer. A few years later, he was accepted to the University of Michigan where he majored in Journalism.
In 1908, He began attending the Chase School of Fine Art. At the age of fifteen he quit high school to enroll in classes at the National Academy of Design. He left the Academy a year after finding out that it was geared towards training of the fine artist rather than the illustrator. He then enrolled in the Art Students League studying inder George Bridgman and Thomas Fogarty. In addition to excelling in his skills in drawing and painting, Rockwell was introduced to the illustration of Howard Pyle.
Our heart and souls at all times sense rejuvenated and lively with every beat of finest music we hear. Music comes in a variety of diverse forms which are admired and renowned for their own unique styles. Classical music is one of the breeds of musical forms that exist since many years with its visible significance in the music industry. Classical music is a part of our globe from almost 1000 years and inspires millions of people with its liveliness and simplicity.
Annie Leibovitz (born Anna-Lou) was born in Waterbury, Connecticut on October 2 1949 to her father Samuel Leibovitz, a was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, and her mother, Marilyn Edith, née Heit, a modern dance instructor of Estonian Jewish heritage. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Leibovitz) Because her father was part of the military, it forced her and her large family to move around constantly. “Years before it ever occurred to me that one could have a life as a photographer, I became accustomed to looking at life through a frame. The frame was the window of my family’s car as we traveled from one military base to another.” (Leibovitz 11) Annie attended Northwood High School and became interested in a variety of artistic accomplishments such as writing, music. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute where she enrolled as a painting major in 1967. For several years, she continued to develop her photography skills while working various jobs, including a stint on a kibbutz in Amir, Israel, for several months in 1969. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Leibovitz)
William Penn was a great individual who contributed tremendously to this nation. John Moretta’s “William Penn and the Quaker Legacy” talks about the courageous efforts by Penn and his perspectives on things. Penn was a spiritual human being who believed in god and wanted a peaceful society for one to live in. He was a brave individual who wanted everyone to be equal and was democratic. Religious tolerance alleged by Penn changed the views of many individuals who lived in that era. The importance of Penn’s background, Quakerism and the development of his society due to his view on religious tolerance will be discussed in this paper.
Annie was born in Waterbury, Connecticut and spent most of her childhood in military bases, because her father had a career as an officer in the AIR FORCE. Growing up one of six, her father was circulating everywhere. Annie’s mother, was a stay at home mom, a wife, and a teacher. If she ever talked clamorously or if she was eager, she claimed it was because of her extensive and uproarious family foundation. She took classes at night to study the art of painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. In 1970, her distinctive portraits started showing in Rolling Stone magazine, and have been ever since (“Annie Leibovitz a photographers life1990-2005”). Annie Leibovitz is one of Americas’ most well known celebrity portrait photographer for her work in Rolling Stone magazine and her work in Vanity Fair.
Photography and portraiture is a powerful medium for art. Through photography and portraiture we are able to capture the essence and being of individuals and moments. Many artists that primarily work within these genres do so for that very reason. Famous photographer Robert Mapplethorpe was no different, using his photographs to capture portraits of the various characters that made up the fabric of his social existence as a gay white male living in New York City. Robert Mapplethorpe, as a member of a fringe lifestyle and culture within America, wanted to utilize his work to bring to the public conscious, recognition and appreciation of these fringe groups and cultures, even if it required shocking depictions and imagery.
Have you ever imagined being asleep in the forest for twenty years, coming back home and not knowing what has gone on all those years of your absence? Rip Van Winkle went through that, and had to come back home and face some real changes. The author Washington Irving has some interesting characters whom he puts in his short stories. Irving puts some characters in his short stories to reflect on some of his life. For example, Irving has similarities between Rip Van Winkle being asleep in the forest 20 years and Irving was in Europe for seventeen writing short stories and being the governor’s aid and military secretary. These two situations are similar, because they both didn’t know what they were going to come back too and were gone for such a long period of time. Irving does put some of his own life into his short stories and with a reason for his self-reflective works.
Washington Irving was born in New York City in 1783, he always had an appreciation of the land and people from there. Irving was quite opposed to the fact that New York was becoming and would become one of the biggest and most prominent cities in the entire world. Irving seemed to be fonder of the lush foliage and the rolling hills of the city, rather than a crowded city and huge port. Irving conveys his beliefs through Knickerbocker in "A History of New York," in the essay Irving says "Happy would it have been for New Amsterdam could it always have existed in this state of blissful ignorance and lowly simplicity, but alas! the days of childhood are too sweet to last! Cities, like men, grow out of them in time, and are doomed alike to grow into the bustle, the cares, and miseries of the world." (Irving 570). Irving believed that his New York would not be the same if it was given all of the exporting and importing power in the east, which it was and is not the way he wished it was.
William Eugene Smith was an American photographer who produced photographic projects that changed how photographs were portrayed. Rather than a photo being a photo, he told stories through his photographs, through a practice called photojournalism. His photographic projects depicted people in their everyday lives, but in different situations. The photographs he took did not hide anything that he saw from the audience no matter how graphic the scenery may appear to be. His photography methods differed from traditional methods, in that traditional photographs/photographic projects were a distortion of reality, so that it is more pleasing to the audience. Smith on the other showed what was actually going on in the world or wherever he was shooting photos. His photos basically showed his audience what is happening in various parts of the world and showing people as they are living their normal lives, no matter how depressing or graphic their true lives might be. Smith changed photography, and in my opinion, opened the new world of photojournalism by telling stories with his photographs.
Irving uses many other images and scenes within this story that could be delved into further. However, I believe these three main points, along with the knowledge of the political climate of the times, shows Irving’s genius in representing both sides of the political gamut. Irving was able to cater to both the British and the Colonist without offending either side. Irving’s genius was that even though this was an allegory of its time, its elements could represent either or both sides of the conflict during the Revolution. This dual representation in an allegorical story ensured his success, in both countries as a writer. It allowed Irving to make a political statement without taking sides.
In “The Photograph”, Enrique Amorim, writes about the tale regarding Madame Dupont, a woman who wants to show her mother that she is doing well in life. As a result, Madame Dupont decides that the best way to represent the life that her mother hoped that Madame had was by hiring a photographer to take her picture. She tells the photographer, “I want a portrait to send to my mother. It must give the impression that it was taken in a real house. My own house” (202). The wording in this quote alone, gives a sense of loneliness as she uses the word “impression”. Thus, it can be inferred that Madame Dupont does not possess adequate living quarters that would allow her mother to feel at ease. The photographer appears to be familiar with this type
Jackson Pollack and Vincent van Gogh are some of most famous artist before and after their time. Each artist has a similar and different painting methods that they use when painting pictures. There most well-known paintings are called “Number 1” and “The Starry Night”. The paintings give off emotion by how they look, but each one is painted in different ways. The public did not find their paintings wanting when they were made. The difference was how long it took for them to get recognized for their work. Lastly, the paintings gave different and similar reactions to people that have changed over the years of their existence.