PHOTOGRAPHS BY IRVING PENN (1988) filmmusic One of the great counter-culture

One of the great counter-culture photography books of the 1970s

He captured intimate moments not just of the magazine's extended family tree but of the culture

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Andy Warhol

PHOTOGRAPHS BY IRVING PENN (1988) filmmusic One of the great counter-cultureIn the 1980s, Penn began an unusually fertile long distance collaboration with Issey Miyake. Every year the Japanese designer sent his inventions to the photographer, whom he revered. And Penn, inspired by the novelty and structural virtuosity of Miyakes art, riffed a series of equally astounding responses in return. The two artists enjoyed this lively creative matchup for fourteen years (198699), resulting in the creation of a handful of brilliant