May 27, 2012

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AUCTION NEWS: Winners, Losers, And Surprises So Far This Year At Christie's, Sotheby's

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art Gallery, Art Galleries, Irving Penn, Andy Warhol, Art Auction, Slideshow, Art Auctions, Pablo Picasso, Mahmoud Said, J.M.W. Turner, Rembrandt, Christie's, Claude Monet, Sotheby's, Arts News

Last week brought news of Christie's record-breaking sales for the first half of this year. We're happy to report that news from the art continues to ...

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Anna Wintour Calls Irving Penn 'Seductive,' Says He 'Liked Strong Women, Not Waifs'

Posted 05.25.2011

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Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour spoke to a crowd at Pratt last night about late photographer Irvin Penn, who she called "seductive," The Cut report...

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Sophie Dahl On Food As Reward, Take-out Culture, and Curvy Centuries

Louise McCready | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Irving Penn, Models, Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, Recipes, Anorexia, Cookbooks, Food, Sophie Dahl, Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, Plus Size, Food News

Food and fashion have, at times, had a fraught relationship. However, Sophie Dahl skillfully and beautifully symbolizes and unites those two antithetical passions.

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New York Fashion Week, Day Two: Jason Wu, Rag & Bone Men's and Women's, Doo.Ri, 3.1 Phillip Lim Men's

Jim Shi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Irving Penn, Phillip Lim, Leather, Doo-Ri Chung, Alpine, Rag & Bone, Fashion Week, Jason Wu, Style News

Jason Wu is determined to prove he's not a one-hit wonder, and if the fall collection he delivered on Friday was any sign of things to come, he has a long career ahead of him.

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Irving Penn, Twitter, and the Everydayness of Life

Adam Hanft | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Irving Penn, Charles Dickens, New York Times, Twitter, Metropolitan Museum, Andy Grundberg, Mark Twain, Starbucks, Raymond Carver, Style News

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.

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

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 05.25.2011

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"

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Irving Penn Dead: Celebrity Photographer Died At 92

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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An Elegy for Magazines

Brian Alexander | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Irving Penn, Vogue Magazine, Internet, Art, Vogue, Gourmet, Gourmet Magazine, Magazines, Media News

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.

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Best Books In Photography From The Guardian

The Guardian | Sean O'Hagan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Irving Penn, Black Panthers, Iphone, Cell Phone, Expensive Book, Photography Book, England, Art Book, Guardian, Robert Frank, Books News

In 2009, photography grappled more than ever with the notion that the mobile phone, rather than the cheap digital camera, may yet make photographers o...

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