Irving Penn
Many-Skirted Indian Woman (B)

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© The Irving Penn Foundation

Many-Skirted Indian Woman (B)
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ArtistAmerican, 1917–2009
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Many-Skirted Indian Woman (B)
Date1948
Place depictedCuzco, Peru
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 3/4 × 9 1/4 in. (27.3 × 23.5 cm)
 Sheet: 10 3/4 × 9 1/2 in. (27.3 × 24.1 cm)
 Mount: 15 × 11 in. (38.1 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of The Irving Penn Foundation, donated in gratitude for Anne Wilkes Tucker’s many years of support and friendship
Object number2015.216
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Object Type
DescriptionIrving Penn earned a place in the photography canon as one of the best portrait and fashion photographers of the 20th century, but throughout his life he made series of work separate from his commercial career, including still-life studies of trash and debris and nontraditionally beautiful female nudes. After working on assignment for Vogue in Lima, Penn rented an antiquated photographer’s studio in Cuzco to make a number of portraits of indigenous Peruvian subjects with the same elegant dignity that characterized his fashion photographs, rather than the more distanced style typical of ethnographic photographs at the time.
ProvenanceThe Irving Penn Foundation, New York; given to MFAH, 2015.
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