In 1967, art director Alexander Liberman commissioned Irving Penn to lens a still life series of flowers for the December edition of American Vogue. Using his signature compositional clarity, the influential image-maker eschewed the sentimentality so commonly associated with blooms, for a stark focus on structure, texture, palette and anatomical function.
Captured face on, with a dewy glaze as though spontaneously plucked from an efflorescent field, the…
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