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Irving Penn Biography
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1917 |
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Born: June 16, Plainfield, New Jersey
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1934 - 1938 |
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Enrolled at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, where he studied design with Alexey Brodovitch
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1938 - 1941 |
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Worked as a graphic artist in New York
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1941 - 1942 |
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Spent a year painting in Mexico
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1943 - 1944 |
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Designer and photographer for Vogue magazine, New York
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1944 - 1945 |
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Served as an ambulance driver and documentary photographer in the American Field Service with the British Army in Italy and India
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1946 |
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Photographer, working with Alexander Liberman for Conde Nast Publications, New York
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1952 |
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Freelance advertising photographer, New York
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1958 |
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Named one of "The World’s 10 Greatest Photographers" in an international poll conducted by Popular Photography Magazine
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008
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Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York (solo)
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2008
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Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
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2007
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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2007
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HackelBury Fine Art Limited, London
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2006
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Palais des Beaux-Arts / Bozar, Bruxelles
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2005
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Fondation Beyeler, Riehen
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2005
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ICP International Center of Photography, New York
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2004
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Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
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2004
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Langhans Galerie Praha, Praha
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2002
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HAMILTONS GALLERY, London (solo)
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2000
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Retrospective, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York (solo)
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1997
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Retrospective, STATE HERITAGE , St.Petersburg, Russia (organised by Art Institute of Chicago; toured museums internationally for several years) (solo)
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1995
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HAMILTONS GALLERY, London (solo)
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1993
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HAMILTONS GALLERY, London (solo)
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1991
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HAMILTONS GALLERY, London (solo)
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1990
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NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART and National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. (solo)
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1984 - 1987
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Retrospective, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York (toured the U.S.A. & Europe) (solo)
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1985
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VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, London (toured Britain)
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1984
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VISION GALLERY, Boston (solo)
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1983
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MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York
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1982
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MARLBOROUGH GALLERY , New York (solo)
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1981
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FERENS ART GALLERY, Yorkshire (travelled to the Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester; Cooper Gallery, Barnsley; Castle Museum, Nottingham; Photographers' Gallery, London)
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1981
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MARLBOROUGH FINE ART, London (solo)
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1980
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MARLBOROUGH GALLERY, New York (solo)
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1979
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TIROLER LANDESMUSEUM, Innsbruck, Austria (travelled to the Nueu Galerie am Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum, Linz, Austria; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria; & Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna)
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1978
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MODERNA MUSEET, Stockholm
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1977
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INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM of PHOTOGRAPHY, Rochester, New York (travelling to the Brooklyn Museum, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Cincinnati Art Institute, Ohio; & Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg)
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1977
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METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York (solo)
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1976
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Masters of the Camera, American Federation of the Arts travelling exhibition
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1975
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JEWETT ARTS CENTER, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
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1975
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GALLERIA CIVICA D'ARTE MODERNA, Turin (solo)
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1967 - 1973
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NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA, Ottawa (toured Canada & U.S.A.)
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1963
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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE , Washington D.C. (solo)
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1961
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MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York, travelling exhibition (toured the U.S.A.) (solo)
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1955
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MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York
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