Irving Penn on Issey Miyake

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After his return to New York in 1946, Penn worked with other fashion and home magazines as well as Vogue, juggling fashion, portraiture, and ethnographic photography. Photographing indigenous peoples in their natural surroundings had long been a dream of Penn's. On Vogue's dime, he travelled to Spain, Peru, Bangladesh, Hawaii, Manila, The Philippines, India, and other exotic locations for fashion shoots. On these occasions, he also completed personal projects. Prodger, Phillip. Face Time: A History of the Photographic Portrait. London: Thames & Hudson, 2021: 168, illustrated. Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn Photographs, 1949-1950, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 14–April 21, 2002. Traveled to: as Irving Penn Nudes, Art Institute of Chicago, June 1–October 6, 2002; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, March 22–August 10, 2003. Penn, Irving. Irving Penn: Cigarettes (exhibition catalogue). London: Hamiltons Gallery in collaboration with the Irving Penn Foundation, 2012. The Construction of the Other: The Archives of Imagination, a Selection from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Provincie Antwerp, Palais de Beaux-Arts/Bozar, Brussels, January 19–March 12, 2007.

Palazzoli, Daniela and Marcello Levi. I Platini di Irving Penn: 25 Anni di Fotografia, Galleria Civica d'arte Moderna. Turin: Ages Arti Grafiche, 1975. People were burned, lying on top of each other, and others gathered at a stream for water. I found my mother, who was burned over half her body, the following day. I asked where she was receiving treatment and went to see her.Penn, Irving. Irving Penn: Cranium Architecture (exhibition catalogue). New York: Pace/MacGill Gallery, 1988. Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, September 29, 2018–February 17, 2019. Saiki, Maggie Kinser. "The Ordinary that Surprises: Issey Miyake; Photographs by Irving Penn." Graphis 48 (July/August 1992): 32–49.

The term itself directly translates to “Japanese dance”, and although it does not refer to dancing in general, it explicitly refers to the kabuki buyo form of dance that is performed in theaters. Is Issey Miyake Still Popular? Irving Penn Regards the Works of Issey Miyake, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo, December 24–December 28, 1999. Passage: A Work Record. With the collaboration of Alexandra Arrowsmith and Nicola Majocchi. Introduction by Alexander Liberman. New York: Knopf, 1991. Penn, Irving. Irving Penn: Archæology (exhibition catalogue). New York: Pace MacGill Gallery, 2010.Salaway, Kate. "Shots of Style at the V & A." British Journal of Photography 132 (October 25, 1985): 198–99.