Irvin Penn - Still Life Photographer

Poached Eggs and Salt, 2001

  Irvin Penn was born in the early 1920s in New Jersey. He was exposed to modern art and design during his time at Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art. Shortly after World War II, he was hired by Vogue to be the associate art director because he was already known in the industry for his still life and portrait pictures. He was also a painter but he was not satisfied of his works and decided to have a full life career being a photograph instead where he could capture life in his lens perspective.

I find that he is a very interesting artist because even by being a travel photographer where he would capture sceneries and portraits of different persons, he would make very dynamic and textured still life projects. In the Poached Eggs and Salt piece, I really like how he arranged the different colors of salt and how he meticulously arranged the egg one over the other. He captures the moment in time but the picture does not lose its liveliness of the subject matter.

Underfoot XXVII, 2000

The picture shown above supports how he captures texture beautifully with probably a microlens, but he knows how to to overlap two different textures together by merging them using shades of only one color. 


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