On loan to The Met The Met accepts temporary loans of art both for short-term exhibitions and for long-term display in its galleries.
W La Libertà, Italy
Irving Penn American
Not on view
Penn returned from Mexico at the end of 1942 and spent the following year at Vogue where, as he said, he “became [a] professional photographer” while working for Alexander Liberman, the fashion magazine’s art director. Except for a short break in 1944–45 to serve in Europe and India as a staff photographer and ambulance driver with the American Field Service, during which this photograph was made, Penn remained with the magazine for the next six decades.
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