Carson McCullers, New York
When McCullers sat for Penn in 1950, her play The Member of the Wedding was collecting awards on Broadway. Countering the tilt of her head with the crook of her hand, Penn created a visually unstable pose that artfully telegraphs McCullers’s partial paralysis. This pose and the intensity of her gaze convey a deep humanity rocked by vexing vulnera-bility, qualities manifest in the writer’s sympathy for isolated and eccentric characters.
Artwork Details
- Title: Carson McCullers, New York
- Artist: Irving Penn (American, Plainfield, New Jersey 1917–2009 New York)
- Date: May 10 1950, printed 1983
- Medium: Platinum-palladium print
- Dimensions: Image: 13 9/16 x 12 15/16 in. (34.4 x 32.8 cm.)
Sheet: 22 13/16 x 20 1/16 in. (58 x 51 cm.)
Mount: 24 1/8 x 20 1/16 in. (61.2 x 51 cm.)
Overall: 24 1/8 x 20 1/16 in. (61.2 x 51 cm.) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation, 2021
- Object Number: 2021.72.9
- Rights and Reproduction: © Condé Nast
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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