Fashion photographer Irving Penn dead: galleryInfluential fashion photographer Irving Penn Irving Penn (borned. 16 June 1917) is an American photographer, born in New Jersey. Known primarily for his fashion photography, Penn's work shows a unique vision and a wide range of subjects. , known for his elegant, minimalist portraits, died Wednesday. He was 92. Penn was long associated with Vogue magazine, where he first began working in the 1940s and won renown for his calm, classical compositions. He died at home in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , said a representative for Pace/MacGill Gallery, which represents Penn's work. Although he was most famous for photographs of glamorous models -- including a black-and-white, nude Gisele Bundchen -- he brought the same graceful simplicity and accuracy to pictures of Peruvian peasants or New Guinea New Guinea (gĭn`ē), island, c.342,000 sq mi (885,780 sq km), SW Pacific, N of Australia; the world's second largest island after Greenland. tribesmen. "Instead of spontaneity, Mr Penn provided the illusion of a seance, his gaze precisely describing the profile of a Balenciaga coat or of a Moroccan djellaba djel·la·ba or djel·la·bah also jel·la·ba or ga·la·bi·a n. A long, loose, hooded garment with full sleeves, worn especially in Muslim countries. in a way that could almost mesmerize mes·mer·ize tr.v. mes·mer·ized, mes·mer·iz·ing, mes·mer·iz·es 1. To spellbind; enthrall: "He could mesmerize an audience by the sheer force of his presence" the viewer," The New York Times said in an obituary. "Nothing escaped the edges of his photographs unless he commanded it." His photographs regularly fetch tens of thousands of dollars under the hammer. An auction scheduled at Christie's in New York on Thursday was to feature some 15 prints by Penn. 
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