This fall at the Grand Palais, for the first time in France and on the occasion of his centenary, there is a retrospective that retraces the 70-year career of the great American photographer, Irving Penn.
OFTEN DESCRIBED as the quintessentially American photographer, Irving Penn used simple monochromatic backdrops to portray his subjects—often women of inimitable beauty—wearing Cristóbal Balenciaga coats or Christian Dior gowns.