Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/13

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Subject: [Leica] Underfoot
From: images at InfoAve.Net (Tina Manley)
Date: Tue Jul 13 06:22:34 2004

Underfoot: Photographs by Irving Penn
July 10 - November 28, 2004

On exhibition for the first time, this group of more than thirty images is 
drawn from master photographer Irving Penns most current body of work. Penn 
(American, b. 1917) is internationally celebrated for his illustrious 
career in fashion photography; his striking portraits and nudes; and his 
innovative still lifes. The artist generated a stir in the 1970s with his 
large, stately photographs of cigarette butts, crushed paper cups, used 
ticket stubs, and other street trash.

Now in his seventh decade as a working photographer, Penn has recently 
turned his attention to patches of discarded chewing gum on the sidewalks 
of New York City. Photographed close-up and exquisitely printed, these 
humble subjects are revealed by the photographer as engaging, organic forms 
of fascinating and endless variation.

http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/exhibits/underfoot.shtml

Tina Manley, ASMP
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