Irving Penn - Paperback Color:Active The Nessino Lamp’s eye-catching shape

The Nessino Lamp’s eye-catching shape provides diffused incandescent light

a subtle reference to MoMA's location in the busy mid-town district in Manhattan

Sherman's work has always had the ability to reflect the ideas of the culture at large and to resonate with a wide audience

Vladimir Tatlin

Irving Penn - Paperback Color:Active The Nessino Lamp’s eye-catching shapeThis book, published in conjunction with and exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, is the first comprehensive retrospective of Penn's work. The essay by John Szarkowski follows a brilliant career, from its art school beginnings to the provocative still lives of recent years, photographs of cigarette butts and street detritus works if eloquence and classical rectitude, made from the least consequential of subject matter. 216 pp.; 156 illus. Published