Getty Acquires Penn’s “Small Trades”

Getty Acquires Penn’s “Small Trades” 02.06.08 - 11:57pm The Getty has acquired all 252 images in Irving Penn’s series “The Small Trades”. The series was started in the 1950s on assignment for Vogue, but Penn continued the work after the assignment ended, cataloging working class people in their professional clothes against a blank studio background using natural light. Penn’s composition (all the portraits are full-length) and choice of subject naturally lends to comparisons with August Sander

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