"He was probably most famous for photographing Parisian fashion models and the world’s great cultural figures, but he seemed equally at home photographing Peruvian peasants or bunion pads. Merry Foresta, co-organizer of a 1990 retrospective of his work at the National Museum of American Art, wrote that his pictures exhibited 'the control of an art director fused with the process of an artist.'"
Andy Grunberg in The New York Times writes an obit for Irving Penn.
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