Irving Penn spent more than six decades working across fashion, portraiture, and still life for Vogue, where he began as a staff photographer in 1943. His platinum-palladium prints, made in his own darkroom, are noted for their tonal richness and physical permanence. He is equally admired for his fashion work and for a parallel body of portraits of working people made in a portable studio he set up in countries without professional facilities.
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Twin-lens reflex camera system produced by Franke & Heidecke in Germany, shooting 6x6cm frames on 120 roll film. Known for its waist-level viewfinder, quiet leaf shutter, and Zeiss or Schneider taking lenses. Various models were produced from 1929 through the 2000s.
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Manufactured by L.F. Deardorff & Sons in Chicago from the 1920s through the 1980s, the 8×10 is a wooden field camera producing negatives 8 by 10 inches. Its bellows design allows for full front and rear movements including tilt, swing, and shift.
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Produced from 1970 to 1994, the 500C/M is a modular medium format SLR using 120 or 220 film. Its interchangeable magazines, focusing screens, and Carl Zeiss lenses made it the standard camera in professional studio and location photography for three decades.
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