Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn (Bilingual edition)

Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn (Bilingual edition)Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9782370742384 Year: 2024 Publisher: Editions Skira Paris Description: A compelling insight into the life of one of the most iconic models in the world of 20th century fashion Lisa Fonssagrives Penn (1911 1992) was a dancer, photographer, stylist and sculptor, but above all one of the most emblematic models of the 20th century fashion world. She worked with the greatest fashion photographers of her time from 1935 to 1955:

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9782370742384
Year: 2024
Publisher: Editions Skira Paris


Description:
A compelling insight into the life of one of the most iconic models in the world of 20th-century fashion



Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn (1911-1992) was a dancer, photographer, stylist and sculptor, but above all one of the most emblematic models of the 20th-century fashion world. She worked with the greatest fashion photographers of her time from 1935 to 1955: Richard Avedon, Erwin Blumenfeld, Louise Dahl- Wolfe, Fernand Fonssagrives, Toni Frissel, Horst P. Horst, whose favourite model she was, George Hoyningen-Huene, Frances Mclaughlin-Gill, Irving Penn, Georges Platt-Lynes and John Rawlings. She was the first model to feature on the cover of Time magazine in September 1949. Wife of Irving Penn from 1950 until her death in 1992, she was, according to Alexander Liberman, artistic director of Vogue magazine, the subject of his greatest photographs. The book features around 150 original vintage prints from her personal collection. Some of these images were published in Vogue France, Vogue US or Harper's Bazaar, and many are previously unpublished, including a large number of photographs of Fernand Fonssagrives, her first husband, and more private portraits taken by Irving Penn.