W La Libertà, Italy

1945, printed July 9, 2001

Not on view

On loan to The Met

This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.

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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Title: W La Libertà, Italy
Artist: Irving Penn (American, Plainfield, New Jersey 1917–2009 New York)
Date: 1945, printed July 9, 2001
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 10 5/8 x 10 7/16 in. (27 x 26.5 cm.)
Sheet: 12 11/16 x 11 in. (32.2 x 28 cm.)
Overall: 12 11/16 x 11 in. (32.2 x 28 cm.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Promised Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation
Object Number: L.2018.62.149
Curatorial Department: Photographs