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Nude No. 1

Irving Penn American
1947, printed February 27, 1947
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 099
By 1950, Penn was a well-known Vogue portrait and fashion photographer but had already made, privately, a major series of nudes—a personal but lesser-known body of work. During the week, he photographed models wearing fashionable clothes for the magazine, but weekends and evenings he made studies of female nudes. The women were full-bodied and the photographs unorthodox, recalling the form and spirit of archaic fertility idols.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Nude No. 1
  • Artist: Irving Penn (American, Plainfield, New Jersey 1917–2009 New York)
  • Date: 1947, printed February 27, 1947
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions: Image: 6 1/4 in. × 6 in. (15.9 × 15.2 cm)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Gift of the artist, 2002
  • Object Number: 2002.455.5
  • Rights and Reproduction: © The Irving Penn Foundation
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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