Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn (Bilingual edition)
Fashion Icon
Author: Simon Baker, Laurence Benaim and Vince Aletti
A compelling insight into the life of one of the most iconic models in the world of 20th-century fashion
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A compelling insight into the life of one of the most iconic models in the world of 20th-century fashion
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A compelling insight into the life of one of the most iconic models in the world of 20th-century fashion
Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn (1911-1992) was a dancer, photographer, stylist and sculptor, but above all one of the most emblematic models of the 20th-century fashion world. She worked with the greatest fashion photographers of her time from 1935 to 1955: Richard Avedon, Erwin Blumenfeld, Louise Dahl- Wolfe, Fernand Fonssagrives, Toni Frissel, Horst P. Horst, whose favourite model she was, George Hoyningen-Huene, Frances Mclaughlin-Gill, Irving Penn, Georges Platt-Lynes and John Rawlings. She was the first model to feature on the cover of Time magazine in September 1949. Wife of Irving Penn from 1950 until her death in 1992, she was, according to Alexander Liberman, artistic director of Vogue magazine, the subject of his greatest photographs. The book features around 150 original vintage prints from her personal collection. Some of these images were published in Vogue France, Vogue US or Harper's Bazaar, and many are previously unpublished, including a large number of photographs of Fernand Fonssagrives, her first husband, and more private portraits taken by Irving Penn.
Critic Reviews
Collects portraits from the personal collection of Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, the supermodel and wife of Irving Penn, with works by Richard Avedon, Man Ray, and George Hoyningen-Huene.--Elena Clavarino "Air Mail"
About the Author
Simon Baker, Director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. Laurence Benaïm, journalist and writer, fashion specialist.
Vince Aletti, curator, writer and art photography critic, notably for The New Yorker.
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