Irving Penn Portraits

Magdalene Keaney.

National Portrait Gallery. London. 2010. First edition. Hardback; grey cloth-bound boards, image pasted to front board. [c.80 pages.] 30 full-page monochrome plates printed on rectos only. English. 250 x 250mm. 0.7kg. 9781855144170. Near fine; slight surface wear to front board.

The catalogue for an exhibition of Irving Penn's portrait photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London in 2010. Thirty of Penn's portraits were selected for this concise show. Dating from 1944 to 2006, sitters include Cecil Beaton, Edith Piaf, Elsa Schiaparelli, Marlene Dietrich, Alberto Giacometti. Colette, Picasso, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois and Helmut Newton.