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Irving Penn, Forgotten Fruit, New York (1980). (© The Irving Penn Foundation)

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US Vogue November 1, 1959

Model Isabella Albonico. Carson Pirie Scott Makeup. Suitable for evening shine and red satin, this makeup involves the following specificities: A foundation with hiding power as well as Hi-Fi glow ivory fluid makeup base in the tone of the candle. Above, no translucent color powder, with a fine texture, ideal for illuminating shadows. Eyes: a black line drawn in the roots of the upper eyelashes (these partly real, partly false); then reinforced by Brownish Black liquid liner and mascara, Hi-Fi Green Iridescent Shadow Stick. Lip Gloss Polishes Shimmering Rose Lipstick. All Max Factor cosmetics.

Red satin evening coat, black satin hat and deep green cut crystal beads are all by Yves Saint Laurent for Christian Dior.

Modèle Isabella Albonico. Maquillage Carson Pirie Scott. Adapté à la brillance du soir et au satin rouge, ce le maquillage implique les spécificités suivantes : Une fondation avec un pouvoir de dissimulation ainsi que Base de maquillage fluide Hi-Fi glow ivoire dans le ton de la bougie. Par-dessus, aucune couleur translucide poudre, à texture fine, idéale pour éclairer les ombres. Yeux : une ligne noire tracée dans les racines du cils supérieurs (ceux-ci en partie réels, en partie faux) ; puis renforcé par Brownish Black liner liquide et mascara, Bâton d'ombre Hi-Fi Vert Irisé. Le brillant à lèvres polit le rouge à lèvres Shimmering Rose. Tous les cosmétiques de Max Factor.

Manteau de soirée de satin rouge, chapeau en satin noir et perles de cristal taillées d'un vert profond sont tous de Yves Saint Laurent pour Christian Dior.

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“Peter and Dagmar Freuchen,” by Irving Penn (1947).Photograph by Irving Penn / © The Irving Penn Foundation

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fashion | "BRODOVITCH Alexey - Astonish me" book announcement

This lavishly illustrated volume explores the influence and significance of the Russian-born photographer, designer, and instructor Alexey Brodovitch (1898–1971), best known for his art directorship of the American fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar between 1934 and 1958, as well as his tutelage of many celebrated documentary and fashion photographers, including Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Eve Arnold, and Lillian Bassman. Though disparate in their aesthetic approaches, these figures are unified by their responses to Brodovitch’s dictum to “astonish me.” The authors address Brodovitch’s impact on photography as an artistic medium in the mid-twentieth century and explore how European art and design became the foundation of a new American print culture.

Brodovitch’s own work will be illuminated through his personal projects—such as the magazine Portfolio and the photographic project Ballet, which depicted performances of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo in the United States (whose evolution echoed Brodovitch’s own émigré condition). Case studies of his transformative collaborations with photographers such as Arnold, Avedon, Penn, Lisette Model, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Hans Namuth, and André Kertész reveal pivotal encounters that may surprise even the most ardent photography aficionado. An illustrated chronology offers an important tool for scholars on this influential but often overlooked figure.

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Published by Yale University Press, 2024 Monographs

Price: 48€ After8 books, Paris

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Irving Penn, Woman on the Beach, Smoking, Long Island, NY 1949, platinum palladium print mounted to aluminum, 64.3 × 47.9 × 3.8 cm, framed © The Irving Penn Foundation, courtesy Pace Gallery

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Models:

Nicola Griffin

Nicola Griffin was discovered in 2013 in a bank in Nottingham by the White Hot Hair company and was asked to model for the shampoo company. She accepted the offer immediately and has been modelling ever since. Nicola has been photographed by SLiNK, a U.K.-based lingerie publication, has been a part of the latest Swimsexy campaign, was featured in Kinetik Beauty advertisements, and has modelled for plus-size designer Anna Scholz.

Nicola is the oldest model to ever appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated thanks to the Swimsexy campaign. She has twin daughters, both at college, and her hobbies include staying fit and eating healthily.

Age: 56

Instagram: @nicolajgriffin

Facebook: NicolaGriffinModel

Twitter: @nicolagriffin3

Daphne Selfe

Daphne Selfe is the world’s oldest supermodel. She was discovered when she was just 21 years old in 1949, when she won a local modelling competition and was signed to an agency in London. Daphne took a break from modelling to raise her three children with her husband in Hertfordshire, but was rediscovered by the agency Models 1 at age 70 after her husband passed away.

She has an extensive modelling experience, including working with fashion powerhouses such as Gucci and Prada. Daphne has written and published a book telling the tales of her modelling adventures and has founded her own foundation—The Daphne Selfe Foundation—which collaborates with different charities and humanitarian organisations.

She says that the secret to maintaining glowing skin as you grow older is eating right, exercising, and lots of fresh air—and, of course, removing makeup before bed!

Age: 89

Instagram: @daphneselfe

Facebook: DaphneSelfeModel

Twitter: @DaphneSelfe

Jacky O’Shaughnessy

Jacky O’Shaughnessy was discovered In Greenwich Village in New York and started modelling lingerie for American Apparel quickly after. She was included in advertisements in The Gentlewoman in 2012 and has since been featured in Vogue Italia and Fashionista and has been photographed in campaigns for Diesel. Jacky has walked the runway at the TOME show in New York and is regularly casted by Ryan Lobo and Ramon Martin.

She also boasts an impressive acting résumé, having made appearances in films and television shows such as the Addams Family trailer, Ned & Stacey, Growing Pains, and Honey, I Shrunk The Kids.

Age: 66

Instagram: @jackyoshaughnessy

Marie-Sophie Wilson

Marie-Sophie Wilson has been walking runways since the 1990s, appearing under labels such as Marc Jacobs, John Galliano, and Azzedine Alaia. Most recently, she walked the Simone Rocha runway in the label’s A/W17 show in London. She has been photographed by Peter Lindbergh and Mario Testino and has a famously laid-back and androgynous style and a punk attitude.

Marie-Sophie lives in the French countryside with her children and is currently producing a documentary on musician John Cohen.

Age: 54

Instagram: @fruitbat2000

Benedetta Barzini

In 6th place on our list of top 10 models over 40 is Benedetta Barzini. Benedetta was discovered in 1963 when she was just 20 years old by Diana Vreeland of Vogue U.S. Benedetta was flown to New York and was shot by Irving Penn, which kickstarted her modelling career. She has graced the cover of Vogue Italia on more than one occasion and, more recently, walked the runway in the Simone Rocha A/W17 show. Benedetta is known for her air of detachment and her general disinterest in fashion and beauty.

She has been known to speak openly about her struggles with anorexia, her turbulent family and home life, and raising her children as a single mother. Along with modelling, she now teaches a feminism class at the University of Milan and is a member of Unione Donne Italiane, or The Italian Women Union.

Age: 73

Naomi Campbell

Naomi Campbell became a household name in the 90s as one of the biggest supermodels of the decade. While her primary focus nowadays is on philanthropic endeavours and working as a contributing editor of British Vogue, Naomi shows that models over 40 are still a force to be reckoned with in the modelling world. She appeared on the runway at the Versace Spring 2018 show in a stunning, slinky gold dress, proving that true beauty never ages.

Age: 48

Instagram: @iamnaomicampbell

Twitter: @NaomiCampbell

Elle Macpherson

Elle Macpherson was born and raised in Australia, but her modelling career kicked off after she was discovered while on a skiing trip in Colorado. She has modelled lingerie for Victoria’s Secret, popped up on pages of Playboy, and has appeared in many TV commercials and ads. Her biggest claim to fame, though, was when she graced the cover of Sports Illustrated, which catapulted her to supermodel status.

Nowadays she owns and runs her own business��a lingerie line—but still makes time to appear in various advertisements.

Age: 54

Instagram: @ellemacphersonofficial

Twitter: @ellemacpherson

Claudia Schiffer

Claudia Schiffer is another name that has been huge in the modelling industry since the 90s. She’s had—and continues to have—a very impressive career, starring in campaigns for Guess and Valentino and Chanel. She has also appeared on the covers of Vogue, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Time, and countless others. Claudia still models for Aquazurra and has her own line of sheer tights, which she models herself. She has recently been featured on the cover of ICON Magazine and walked the runway alongside Naomi Campbell in the Versace Spring 2018 show.

 Claudia also has a strong interest in philanthropy; she is an ambassador for UK Goodwill, a spokesperson for Make Poverty History, and is heavily involved in UNICEF projects.

Age: 47

Instagram: @claudiaschiffer

Facebook: ClaudiaSchifferOffiical

Cindy Crawford

Cindy Crawford was one of the most famous models of the 1980s and 90s. Publications such as Vogue, W, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Cosmopolitan, and Allure have seen Cindy on the cover. She has walked in runway shows for Dior, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Versace, and Dolce & Gabbana and has been a part of advertising campaigns for Balmain, Hermes, Guess, Gap, Revlon, Oscar de la Renta, DKNY, and Valentino. She walked alongside Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell in the Versace Spring 2018 show.

Nowadays, Cindy has two children, Presley and Kaia Gerber, who both model. She owns several of her own businesses, including a homewares and furniture line and a line of beauty and skin products. Her key to looking so good at her age? Taking care of her skin, avoiding the sun, drinking lots of water, not smoking, and getting plenty of sleep.

Age: 52

Instagram: @cindycrawford

 Facebook: CindyCrawford

Tyra Banks

Tyra Banks is most famous for her role as a judge on America’s Next Top Model, but her modelling career began much earlier when she was just 15 years old. She walked in a whopping 25 shows during her first Paris Fashion Week in 1991. She has broken down tons of barriers throughout her career, being the first woman to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and the first African American woman on the cover of GQ. Her modelling résumé is massive, including Calvin Klein, Yves Saint Laurent, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Victoria’s Secret, Nike, Oscar de la Renta, Chanel, Donna Karan, Tommy Hilfiger, and many more. She has appeared in music videos alongside artists such as Lionel Richie, George Michael, Tina Turner, and Michael Jackson. But it doesn’t stop there: Tyra has been featured in tons of TV shows and movies such as Gossip Girl, Blackish, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Tropic Thunder, and Love & Basketball.

Recently she has modelled for Paper Magazine, has published a book, and still judges on America’s Next Top Model, proving that models over 40 really can do it all.

Age: 44

Instagram: @tyrabanks

Twitter: @tyrabanks

Referencing:

Monique Courtney. (2018). TOP 10 MODELS OVER 40 YEARS OLD. [Online]. the photo studio. Available at: https://thephotostudio.com.au/all/modelling/female-modelling/top-10-models-over-40/ [Accessed 23 September 2023].

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Irving Penn

Photographer: Irving Penn

Website: https://irvingpenn.org/ 

Bodies of Work: 1) Portraits, and 2) Small Trade

Irving Penn, a famous portrait photographer, created priceless art in the fields of painting and photography. With unique angles, he can observe some interesting moments or groups in his lifetime and record and process them using professional photography skills and printing skills. Photography collections like “Still Life”, “Beauty”, “Portraits”, and “Small Trades” shared his understanding of the world, environment, photography, people, and aesthetics. 

The first project I selected is a portrait series called “Small Trade”, where the main subjects are people who perform small trades in super mega cities like Paris, London, and New York between 1950 - 1951(Irving Penn Website, 7). This collection contains characters from different occupations in the city: some of them are milk delivers, chefs, people selling balloons, and firefighters. All images are focused on presenting the full body of subjects under simple mess background, and some of them are presenting the intimate relationship between friends and colleagues. 

The second project I select is his portraits project, which contains people who worked in the art field in the twentieth-centuries (Irving Penn Website, 6).  Almost his portrait works are a single person with a very simple background, distinguished from the works of photographer Arnold Newman who is good at using creative environment elements or structure to strengthen the personality of the person. 

These two collections are different, with the “small trades” mainly focusing on demonstrating people in the small business in megacity while the “portraits” demonstrate celebrities, artists, or who have certain social statuses.  In his portraits collections, nearly all characters don’t use any tools related to their occupancy, but characters in the “small trade” collection used objects like a milk basket or a bicycle to represent their job and small trade instance. In his work “Chef(A)”, people can see the chef used his cooking tools and a large water ladle, presenting an experienced chef with plenty of cooking strategies and a happy attitude towards life. Stella mentioned in her article that “Irving Penn succeeded in removing the unnecessary and highlighting the essential in his photographs, by connecting art with body movement … he wanted people and objects he captured to be in the studio away from their usual environment(12)”. The simple messy background full of light and chaos provides the subject a sense that their living environment in the megacity is less colorful, less hopeful, and full of chaos and darkness. Under such a background, the focus of this image is the pose of the chef, the tools he holds, and his emotion.

(Chef (A), New York, 1951, Platinum-palladium print, © Condé Nast)

(Salvador Dalí (1 of 3), New York, 1947, Gelatin silver print, © The Irving Penn Foundation)

However, in his “portraits” collection, almost all his works are shot under a very clean and light background, such as at the corner of the room with a light wall, blocks, and sheets. David mentioned in his article that Penn used a simple background to isolate his subjects which prevents the image to contain distractions and unnecessary information (8). For his work “Salvador Dalí”, he just used a corner of a dark room as a background, but because of this setting, people’s attention will focus on the subject’s face, posture, mustache, and angry emotion. From these details, we can feel his strong emotional expression which is kind of angry and impatient. In this photography collection, Irving used higher contracts and longer exposure time while printing compared to the “small trade” collection, and rather than taking the picture of the whole body for all characters, Irving just focus on the interesting part of the character to highlight the emotion and expression of the character.

These two projects also have some similarities. Both of them are containing photography to express the intimate relationship between friends, lovers, and colleagues. In the “Small Trade” series, the work called “Pâtissiers” demonstrates the relationship between two patissiers, and from their movements of putting hands on each other’s shoulder, we can feel the solid and sincere friendship between them, representing the relationship between people living in the low level of the society. In the “Portraits” series,  a work called “Miró and His Daughter, Dolores,” shows a moment of a warm family where dad and daughter sit together, holding each other’s hand. From these two photography works, we can observe that Irving is enjoying using hand connection and the subjects’ peaceful facial emotions to create a solid relationship between them and to deliver the idea to people. Even though the backgrounds of these two images are quite different, where the patissiers seem living in a vague and less colorful environment and the dad and his daughter are living in a more stable and peaceful environment, their relationship is expressed such solid, believable, and peaceful, that gives these two images wonderful connections.

(Pâtissiers, Paris, 1950 [Pastry Chefs], Gelatin silver print, © Condé Nast (Fr.))

(Miró and His Daughter, Dolores, Tarragona, Spain, 1948, Gelatin silver print, © The Irving Penn Foundation)

Work Cited:

Polyzoidou, Stella. “Irving Penn: The Surprising Fashion Photographer.” TheCollector, 16 Nov. 2021, https://www.thecollector.com/irving-penn-american-fashion-photographer/. 

David. “Irving Penn: In Pursuit of Perfection.” Photogpedia, 6 Aug. 2021, https://photogpedia.com/irving-penn/. 

Image Galleries, The Irving Penn Foundation, https://irvingpenn.org/galleries#galleries-paintings-drawings

Penn, Irving. “Salvador Dalí (1 of 3).” The Irving Penn Foundation, https://irvingpenn.org/portraits. 

Penn, Irving. “Miró and His Daughter, Dolores, Tarragona, Spain.” The Irving Penn Foundation, https://irvingpenn.org/portraits. 

Penn, Irving. “Chef (A)” The Irving Penn Foundation, https://irvingpenn.org/portraits. 

Penn, Irving. “Pâtissiers.” The Irving Penn Foundation, https://irvingpenn.org/portraits. 

presentation link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/137cx5dlPTwHpP6CGQTMFsCN2QPjVrd8N6k_SXfqG0-w/edit?usp=sharing

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A look from the spring 1997 Comme des Garçons collection Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body, by Rei Kawakubo.

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Irving Penn with family

Nonny Gardner, Harry, Irving, and Arthur Penn, Philadelphia, ca. 1938.  The photographs gifted by the Nonny Gardner Cangelosi family to The Irving Penn Foundation include images like this one of Irving Penn with his father, Harry (left), a jeweler and watchmaker by trade, and his brother Arthur (right), who went on to become the acclaimed film and theater director.

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US Vogue April 1, 1970

Marisa Berenson in a dress printed with golden flowers, in Gourdon silk organza and a black fringed shawl. By Oscar de la Renta. Enamelled gold rings, by Seaman Schepps. Beauty note: color here with Earthen Liqui-Creme Foundation and Rusticana Red Liqui-Creme Lipstick, both from Charles of the Ritz. Hairstyle by Suga.

Marisa Berenson dans une robe imprimée de fleurs dorées, en organza de soie de Gourdon et un châle noir frangé. Par Oscar de la Renta. Bagues en or émaillé, par Seaman Schepps. Note beauté : coloration ici avec Earthen Liqui-Creme Foundation et Rusticana Red Liqui-Creme Lipstick, tous deux de Charles of the Ritz. Coiffure par Suga.

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Robin Williams , New York, 1998 | Photographer: Irving Penn

“...don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me. Make your life spectacular.”    ―    Robin McLaurin Williams

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多才多藝Irving Penn 從不重複自己

已故美國攝���師Irving Penn在時尚界及攝影界無人不曉，以時尚攝影揚名的他為美國時尚雜誌《Vogue》掌鏡六十多年，鏡頭下的名人多不勝數，當中柯德莉·夏萍、畢加索的照片，更是上世紀的標誌性作品。逝世十年，他的名字卻從沒被人遺忘，由兒子Tom Penn等人主理的Irving Penn Foundation在世界各地舉辦數十場展覽，最近亦在香港舉辦首場亞洲展覽，呈現他多元又新穎的攝影作品。

用二十多張作品來展示Irving Penn的漫長攝影生涯，絕非易事，展覽現場有他的時裝、人像、裸體及靜物攝影等作品，看得出背後用意是貴精不貴多，盡量呈現他多才多藝的一面，因此那幅紅唇上的蜜蜂作品《Bee on Lips》、名模太太Lisa…

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Milk Moon Face, New York, 1996 @/the.irving.penn.foundation on Instagram

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Irving Penn, Poppy ‘Glowing Embers’, New York, 1968 © The Irving Penn Foundation via Vogue