Countee Cullen, the Great Black Poet, Wrote, “Yet Do I Marvel at This Curious Thing: To Make a Poet Black, and Bid Him Sing!” These Days, Black Women Are Singing Str…

Their minds sinewy, their tactics delicate, feminine, these are five special women—five out of hundreds who in one way or ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Iconic Photography by the Legendary Irving Penn Comes to the American Art Museum

The street photograph above casts a beguiling look into a New York City beauty shop window. Image courtesy of American Art Museum New York, 1939. Gelatin silver print ...
KCRW

He Was the Scheherazade of Our Time

Last month, at the opening of the Irving Penn exhibition at the Getty Center, the celebrated 92 year-old photographer was not in attendance. We were told that he hates to fly, which shouldn't come as ...
insider.si.edu

Irving Penn : a career in photography / edited by Colin Westerbeck ; with contributions by Rosamond Bernier ... [et al.]

At head of title: The Irving Penn Collection and Archives. "This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition ... organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and presented from November 22, ...