Irving Penn: Still Lives

12 Apples, New York, 1985, Irving Penn Courtesy of the artistWho? Irving Penn, best known for his fashion photography and startlingly portraits of celebrities, trained first as a painter at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art. He continued to paint and draw throughout his long career as a photographer, and it is these skills of draughtsmanship and composition that are most firmly pronounced in his less renowned still lives, in which he created the most unusua...