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When Irving Penn Shot Real Women

Irving Penn’s Nude No. 1, 1947, is charged with physical and sexual energy. The artist’s urge to embody fertility in the form of the female body is as old as the Venus of Willendorf, ca. 24,000–22,000 B.C. ©1950–2002 by Irving Penn

The nudes Steichen found problematic

by Maria Morris Hambourg