Irving Penn

Known for: studio portraiture and fashion photography for Vogue

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.