Views on Château Lafite Rothschild - 1988

Irving Penn photographed the most important figures of the century: Artists, dancers, filmmakers, musicians, architects, and writers
In 1950, he shot the first of his 27 seasons of Haute Couture, and in 1964 he revived platinum-palladium, a printing technique with velvety tones that had been abandoned since 1900.

“This photo began as a sketch on a crumpled diary page and sent by post! After the surprise, total freedom was left to the artist.”

With a sobriety of extreme refinement, Penn envisages fashion designs, still lifes, nudes, and ethnographic subjects (natives of Peru, Nepal…).
The Museum of Modern Art in New York devoted a retrospective to him in 1984.