Irving Penn: A Career As A Photographer

Irving Penn didn’t grow up wanting to be a photographer, he actually wanted to be an art director, but after spending a year in Mexico painting and knowing he wouldn’t be anything better than mediocre. He returned to New York, winning the attention of an art director’s at Vogue, who then hired him as his assistant, to suggest photographic front covers. The staff didn’t partially like Penn’s ideas, but the art director who hired him did and arranged for him to simply do it himself. The director seemed to like it so much, that he published it in the October issue of Vogue as the front cover. And. with doing so, it launched his career as a photographer.
Throughout his career of almost seventy years, he became one of the most well-known American