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. The combination of these two objects don't correlate much, or I would not think that they do. The ant in the image I get that it is trying to get into the ripe cheese. The colors really pop out tho because of the dark contrast of the red pear and the white cheese with the yellow coming out of the cheese. The cheese kind of looks like the egg white and the yellow oozing out looks like the egg yolk, so the image can end up looking like something else. The composition of the objects is really interesting as well as it is just the objects stacked up together and not have the pear put on the side. The more you look at the image, the moe interesting it looks.

Works Cited:

- “Biography.” The Irving Penn Foundation, n.d. https://irvingpenn.org/biography.

- “Irving Penn: Ripe Cheese (1992): Available for Sale.” Artsy, n.d. https://www.artsy.net/artwork/irving-penn-ripe-cheese.