Irving Penn

Grace Coddington Talks Unconventional Beauty, Too-Skinny Models, And Her "Unpopular" Wardrobe

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 10.22.2009 | Style


Lesley M. M. Blume

Grace Coddington: "Most of Ralph Lauren's models are not super skinny: this is an isolated situation and I think that it's unfair that he's getting bad publicity for it"

An Elegy for Magazines

Brian Alexander | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media


Brian Alexander

A good magazine is a combination of stories, photos, drawings, opinions, reporting, whimsy, humor. It is an art that is not reproducible nor replaceable by any other medium.

Irving Penn, Twitter, and the Everydayness of Life

Adam Hanft | Posted 10.08.2009 | Style


Adam Hanft

Twitphobes complain, "Do I really care if so-and-so picked up the kids or had to wait too long for a latte at Starbucks?" Maybe we do. Maybe we should. Maybe we can.

Irving Penn Dead: Celebrity Photographer Died At 92

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media


NEW YORK — Irving Penn, whose photographs revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether he was shooting celebrity portraits, fashion, still life...