Putting Penn to Paper at the Morgan Library

Rare is the photographer who can boast a portfolio that contains portraits of Giorgio de Chirico, Jasper Johns, and everyone in between, but then, Irving Penn is no ordinary photographer. We’re a real sucker for his still lifes (particularly those stunning culinary shots he cooks up for Jeffrey Steingarten‘s delicious column in Vogue), and we’ll be among those first in line for next Friday’s opening of “Close Encounters,” an exhibition at New York’s Morgan Library & Museum of 67 Penn portraits acquired by the Morgan last year. The subjects of the photos are mainly writers and visual artists, with some dance, music, film, and theater folks thrown in for good measure. Every decade of Penn’s work–from the 1944 de Chirico photo to the 2006 shot of Johns–is represented in the exhibition. Don’t miss the 1964 photo of architect and designer Frederick Kiesler chilling with a young William de Kooning in New York City.

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