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| Irving Penn took household objects as well such as matchboxes and fruits to bring attention to those things that people usually overlook in our daily lives. That type of pictures of his is what inspired me to take this one. |
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| Irving Penn did a lot of fashion photography especially for the Vogue magazine. This one is one of the pictures that caught my eye of a lady looking into a mirror. I used a compact instead of the box mirror that he had used which inspired me to take this picture. |
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| Penn was most known for taking portraits of people and so I picked some of the portraits that caught my eye and used their influence to take these pictures. |
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| Irving Penn takes pictures of ordinary objects like shoes and brings attention to them which inspired me to take this picture. |
Reflection
Irving Penn was born in Plain field, New Jersey in 1917 and died in New York, New York in 2009. He has traveled from New York to London and even Morocco to take pictures. Most of his objects were people. He took many portraits and mainly focused on people as his subject. However he also took pictures of a lot of still life such as shoes and fruits.
Irving Penn is unique in that he takes pictures of things that people don't normally pay ttention to. For example, he tok a picture of a matchbox, which is something that people use but don't pay much attention too. I think that this makes him unique. We chose this photographer because when I looked him up,. his pictures were so out of the box. He looks at things from a completely different point of view and that definitely caught my attention.
Irving Penn inspired me to look at simple things from a new point of view. He did a lot of fashion photography but didn't always ask the model to do regular poses. instead he asked them to do different and sometimes weird things which made it easier for him to catch people's attention with his pictures. In the beginning, I wasn't too interested in his pictures because something of them are weird and awkward to try and recreate. But soon I realized that I liked looking through all of his pictures and it was really fun to take pictures similiar to the ones Irving Penn has taken.I enjoyed looking at things from a similiar perspective to his. After looking through his pictures, i understand that he is a great photographer who looked at the world in his own unique way.
