Irving Penn: Worlds In A Small Room, Seen & Unseen @ Fahey/Klein In Los Angeles

Fahey/Klein Gallery presents Irving Penn: Worlds in a Small Room, Seen & Unseen, a solo exhibition of works by renowned photographer Irving Penn. This exhibition will feature a powerful retrospective of Penn’s ethnographic studies, which illustrate the diversity of Irving Penn and his work. Following a long-established tradition of ethnographic photography, Penn abandoned the tradition’s passivity and instead applied his own unique approach. The photographs on view highlight Penn’s purposeful engagement with his subjects and his exacting attention to detail. A stark contrast from his personality portraits, the photographs in the exhibition are drawn from the images made from his travels to Peru, Dahomey, Morocco, and New Guinea. With the generous assistance from The Irving Penn Foundation, the photographs on view will be a combination of well-known images, as well as a small selection of lesser known and previously unexhibited works from the “Worlds in a Small Room” series. Worlds in a Small Room, Seen & Unseen is on view through October 6 at Fahey/Klein Gallery 148 North La Brea, Los Angeles.

Irving Penn's Cigarettes

Hamilton's Gallery in London presents, for the first and possibly only time ever, Irving Penn's Cigarettes series in its entirety. Marking a quarter century as the UK representatives of Penn's studio Hamilton's has the unique privilege of presenting the full 26 images of the series along with a fully illustrated hardbound catalogue. Penn's cigarette still lifes were literally found on the street and brought into his studio to photograph, turning "pure detritus into a symbolic representation of contemporary culture." And by printing the photographs with his beautiful platinum palladium process he elevates the images to rare objects. Irving Penn's Cigarette series will be on view until August 17, 2012 at Hamilton's Gallery, 13 Carlos Place, London

Me Myself & I

“What do I see in Picasso that makes him Picasso?” wondered Edward Quinn, who took a large number of pictures of the Andalusian artist. Besides Quinn, many other photographers – some of whom were great names in the history of photography – Man Ray, Brassaï, Robert Doisneau, Dora Maar, Irving Penn, Edward Quinn, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michel Sima, Richard Avedon and André Villers – also shot portraits of the famous artist, offering their own angle on his work and personality. The result is a profusion of portraits of Pablo Picasso that have become part of our collective imagery and which have contributed to building up a myth around the artist, his life and his work. MemyselfandI, Photographic Portraits of Picasso has been jointly organized by Museo Picasso Málaga and Museum Ludwig, Cologne and will be on view until May 10. After its run at MPM, it will travel to Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, where it will be on display from 2nd August to 28th October 2012.

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Richard Misrach

Pier 24 Photography presents the exhibition, HERE. This exhibition presents a selection of works produced by Bay Area photographers as well as a range of images of San Francisco, with an emphasis on the late-twentieth century. HERE. highlights the vibrancy of San Francisco and the surrounding areas through the work of 34 photographers and over 700 images. On view until December 16 –By appointment only Pier 24 The Embarcadero San Francisco CA, 94105. Exhibition photo by Austin McManus.