欧文·佩恩（Irving Penn）是20世纪最重要和最巨影响力的摄影师之一，因其瞩目的影像作品及精湛的版画技术而成名。在摄影普遍被视为一种记录媒介的时代，他在工作和个人作品中均以他艺术的视觉处理摄影，扩展了它创新的可能性。他的时尚照片从1940年代起在《Vogue》杂志上出现，同时他亦为作家、艺术家、名人、小孩及商人拍摄个人肖像，作品亦涵盖裸体及静物题材，即使是腐烂的水果或殆尽的烟蒂，他亦能从中发现其美态。
佩恩的摄影作品因其精准及优雅的风格而享负盛名。他着眼于令人惊讶的细节，加上作品构图及明暗对照的强烈对比，令他无论在什么题材上，作品都具有独特的视角。在将近70年的艺术生涯中，佩恩的美术造诣和技巧令他誉满艺术与商业。他亦开创复兴早期的印刷技术，研究19世纪流行的印刷方法，例如铂钯印刷，使他能更好地控制作品的细节变化和色调。
佩恩生于1917年，父母为新泽西州普兰菲尔德移民。他1934至38年就读费城博物馆工业艺术学院（Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts），并与阿列克谢·布罗多维奇（Alexey Brodovitch）于设计实验室中一同学习。他为《时尚》（Vogue）杂志拍摄的首个封面于1943年10月面世，他整个职业生涯中一直为该杂志工作。在1950年代，他在纽约成立了自己的工作室，开始拍摄广告作品及个人、具实验性的作品，包括《裸体》系列（Nudes series）。在1970年代初，他关闭了曼哈顿的工作室，并在位于长岛的家庭农场设立实验室，专注研究铂金印相法。其后他创作了突破性的《香烟》系列（Cigarettes series），该系列1975年于他首个在纽约现代艺术博物馆（The Museum of Modern Art, New York）的展览中展出；同时创作了1977年在纽约大都会艺术博物馆（The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York）展出的《街头杂物》系列（Street Material series）。
佩恩首个回顾展1984年于纽约现代艺术博物馆（The Museum of Modern Art, New York）举办，并在日本、法国、西班牙、德国、瑞典、以色列、意大利和英国等国家巡回展出。他1995年将个人档案捐赠予芝加哥艺术学院（Art Institute Chicago），并于2005年成立欧文·佩恩基金会（Irving Penn Foundation）以推广个人艺术造诣的知识和理解，包括他曾探索的多样化技巧、媒介及题材。佩恩最近展出作品的展览包括2015年于华盛顿史密森尼美国艺术博物馆（the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.）举行的「欧文·佩恩：超越美」（Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty），以及2017年于纽约大都会艺术博物馆（The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York）举行的《百年纪念》（Centennial），该展览亦曾在巴黎大皇宫（RMN - Grand Palais, Paris）、C/O柏林（C/O Berlin）及圣保罗莫雷拉萨勒斯学院（Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo）中展出。
照片：欧文·佩恩，自拍照，库斯科，1948年。明胶银盐印刷，34 x 26.4 厘米。 © 欧文·佩恩基金会
2024
Irving Penn: Centennial, Mop Foundation, A Coruña, Spain
Edge of Beauty, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Marais, France
Irving Penn: Centennial, De Young Legion of Honour Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
2023
The Bath, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Irving Penn. Portraits d’artistes. Photographies de la Collection Pinault, Villa Les Roches Brunes, Dinard, France
Irving Penn, Chefs d'œuvre de la collection de la MEP, Les Franciscaines, Deauville, France
2021
Irving Penn: Photographism, Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2020
Irving Penn: Underfoot, Tate Modern, London, UK
2019
Irving Penn: Still Life, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Marais, France
Irving Penn: Still Life, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Irving Penn, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong
Untroubled: Irving Penn, Works from the Pinault Collection, Mina Image Centre, Beirut, Lebanon
Irving Penn, Pace Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, USA
2018
Irving Penn: Centennial, C/O Berlin, Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, USA
Irving Penn: Paintings,Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK
Irving Penn: centenário, Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo, Brazil
Irving Penn: Paintings, Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Irving Penn: Worlds in a Small Room, Seen & Unseen, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2017
Irving Penn, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Irving Penn: The Flavour of France, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS, USA
Irving Penn: Resonance, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, The Frick, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Irving Penn: Centennial, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Irving Penn: 1950, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Irving Penn: Fashion, Åmells, Stockholm, Sweden
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, USA
2016
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA
Irving Penn: Personal Work, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2015
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., USA
Irving Penn: Flowers, Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK
2014
Irving Penn: Resonance, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Irving Penn: Timeless Moments, Amells Konsthandel, Stockholm, Sweden
2013
Irving Penn: Cranium Architecture, Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK
Irving Penn: Diverse Worlds, Kumu Art Museum, Talinn, Estonia
Irving Penn: Underfoot, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Irving Penn: On Assignment, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2012
Irving Penn: Cigarettes, Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK
Irving Penn: Diverse Worlds, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden
2011
Irving Penn: Ethnos, Bernheimer Fine Art Photography, Munich, Germany
Irving Penn: Le Noir et Blanc légitimé, Galerie Thierry Marlat, Paris, France
Irving Penn and Issey Miyake: Visual Dialogue, 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo, Japan
Irving Penn: Radical Beauty 1946–2007, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2010
Irving Penn: Archæology, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Irving Penn: Small Trades, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Irving Penn: Small Trades, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France
Irving Penn: Small Trades, Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK
Irving Penn Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2009
Irving Penn, 1917–2009, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Irving Penn: Banquet, Galerie Thierry Marlat, Paris, France
Irving Penn: Small Trades, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2008
Close Encounters: Irving Penn Portraits of Artists and Writers, Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY, USA
Irving Penn: Vessels, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2007
Irving Penn: In Flower, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Irving Penn, (Jane) Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Irving Penn, Camera Work, Berlin, Germany
2005
Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Irving Penn: Ethnographic, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Underfoot: Photographs by Irving Penn, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2004
Irving Penn: Present Concerns, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Underfoot: Photographs by Irving Penn, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Dahomey (1967), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, USA
2002
Irving Penn, Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK
Dancer: 1999 Nudes by Irving Penn, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn’s Nudes, 1959-50, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Irving Penn: Still Life in Color 1947-2001, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Irving Penn circa 1948, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
1999
Irving Penn Regards the Works of Issey Miyake, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1998
Irving Penn, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Spain
1997
Irving Penn, A Career in Photography, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Irving Penn: "Le Bain" (Irving Penn: "The Bath"), Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Irving Penn: The Small Trades (1950), Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Irving Penn, Camera Work, Berlin, Germany
Irving Penn, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Irving Penn: Photographs from the Years 1949–1950, Ehlers Caudill Gallery Ltd., Chicago, IL, USA
Irving Penn: Photographs, Wildenstein Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Irving Penn: Retrospective, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
1996
Irving Penn, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
1995
Irving Penn, (Jane) Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Irving Penn, Fotografier. En donation till minne av Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn (Irving Penn, Photographs: A Donation in Memory of Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Irving Penn, Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK
1993
Irving Penn: Collection Privée/Privatsammlung (Irving Penn: Private Collection), Galleria Gottardo, Lugano, Switzerland
Irving Penn, Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK
1992
Irving Penn Poster Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1991
Nature Morte, Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK
Irving Penn Selected Photographs, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Irving Penn 1948, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY , USA
Irving Penn: Portraits in a Corner, 1948, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
1990
The Small Trades, Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK
Irving Penn Master Images, National Museum of American Art/National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
Irving Penn: Fourteen Cigarettes, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Irving Penn, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Irving Penn: Platinum Test Materials, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Irving Penn: Vintage Prints from the Series "Earthly Bodies," 1949–1950, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1989
Irvin Penn Photographs 1949–1975, Vibeke Levy Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
Issey Miyake Poster Exhibition/i.i.i., Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Cranium Architecture, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1987
Irving Penn Retrospective, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Irving Penn, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1986
Irving Penn Photographs, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Irving Penn, Sporting d'hiver de Monte-Carlo, Monte-Carlo, Monaco
1984
Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Irving Penn, Vision Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
1982
Irving Penn: Recent Still Life, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1981
Irving Penn: Photographs in Platinum Metals—Images 1947–1975, Marlborough Gallery, London, UK
Irving Penn: Photographs (on Assignment for Vogue), Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
Irving Penn, Lunn Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
Platinum Prints, Gallery 700, Milwaukee, WI, USA
1980
Earthly Bodies, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1979
Irving Penn, (Jane) Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Photography als Kunst 1879-1979 (Photography as Art 1879-1979), Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria
1978
Irving Penn Platinum Prints, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Irving Penn, Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
1977
Irving Penn: Photographs in Platinum Metals—Images 1947–1975, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1976
100 Master Photographs, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1975
I Platini di Irving Penn: 25 Anni di Fotografia (Irving Penn Platinum Plates: 25 Years of Photography), Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy
Irving Penn: Recent Works, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1963
Irving Penn, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. USA
1960
Photographs by Irving Penn, Alexandre Iolas Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2025
Corps et âmes, Bourse de Commerce, Paris, France
2024
Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, Fashion Icon, MEP, Paris, France
2020
30 Years in Paris, Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris Pantin, France
2019
Photographic Lives: Robert Freson, Irving Penn, and the Portrait, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, USA
2017
Penn/Warhol: Signs, Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK
2016
American Classics, Pace Gallery, London, UK
2008
Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London, UK
2007
Photography Now, Hackelbury Fine Art, London, UK
The Construction of the Other: The Archives of Imagination, a Selection from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Provincie Antwerp, Palais de Beaux-Arts/Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
2006
Fashion Photography, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA, USA
2005
Recent Acquisitions 2005: Some Versions of the Portrait, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA
2004
Photography of the Fifties: An American Perspective, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, USA
Tvari v tvar (Face to Face: The F. C. Gundlach Collection), Langhans Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic
1985
Shots of Style, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
1977
The History of Fashion Photography, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, USA
1976
Masters of the Camera: Stieglitz,, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA
1975
Photography within the Humanities, Symposium and Exhibition, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA
Color Photography, Inventors and Innovators 1850–1975, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
1972
Alexey Brodovitch and His Influence, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
1968
Photography as Printmaking, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1965
Glamour Portraits, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
The Photo Essay, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1964
The Photographer's Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1963
Points of View: Single Subject/Multiple Artists, Smithsonian Institute, washington, D. C., USA
1959
La Biennale di Venezia della Fotografia (Venice Biennale of Photography), Venice, Italy
Photography at Mid-Century, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, USA
1955
The Family of Man, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1953
Contemporary Photography, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1950
Color Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1948
In and Out of Focus, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Australia
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
France
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Musée d’Art contemporain, Strasbourg
Sweden
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
UK
Tate, London
National Portrait Gallery, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
USA
Art Institute, Chicago, IL
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA