Undoubtedly the world of the fashion has lost one of his pioneers and more out-standing collaborators, the photographer and painter Irving Penn, who was the first one in presenting a merger between the photo and painting that he made him emphasize in the means where it realized his work.

Irving Penn, was one of the fashionable photographers most renowned and wanted in the artistic means of the United States. His love for the photo made him emphasize in the world of the fashion, of equal form his talent for the painting, being his portraits of famous persons very well-known and quoted in the artistic world.

He was born in the year 1917 in his dear city of New York and died 92 years after age, as there was announced by Peter MacGuill, a relative the family of the photographer and painter, although there are not known the causes of his decease of an official way.

The Penn work is recognized on a global scale and his samples have been exhibited in different galleries in the United States. Of equal form, his work has been exhibited in books where keen of the fashion and photo they can enjoy his art.

Many-sided work:

Penn had a way of working that he was accepting neither molds nor patterns, it was free to express in his art for what it was longing to him in his moment. It could paint the portrait of personalities then to happen to work with completely anonymous personages.

His work in to the world of the fashion was emphasized, he reminds him to himself for his photos where it was exhibiting the fashion of Paris and his models. Also the photos are known to the artists' nude like Kate Moss.

It worked for the American fashionable magazine Vogue, where he took charge of the fronts of several editions, only in his first front one managed to sell more than they were waiting.

It was chosen to photograph to important figures of the whole world, between them to Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, writer T.S. Elliot. He emphasized also for his photos the fashionable artists.

Today he rests in peace Irving Penn, but his work will live forever in the world of the fashion.