Irving Penn
Irving Penn was an American photographer that made his photographs with a more artistic sense during his era. He was challenging the way photography was thought it was supposed to be, changing the way modern photography was done. Penn was also a painter and he took what he did with paintings and brought it over to the way he wanted his photographs would look. Penn was better known for his arresting images and his still life photos. The collecting of his still life images are rather simple yet really unique. The details in the objects are very clear almost as if you can touch the objects in the images. There are some images that are black and white and the details really pop out the object in focus. The colored images have so much color, color that contrast against the other colors that make it that more lively. Ripe Cheese, 1992 (https://www.artsy.net/artwork/irving-penn-ripe-cheese) There were several other images that I like but this image in particular was interesting to me. Th...
