![Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & [Daily] News in middle foreground. (1931)](http://cdn1.retronaut.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Atop-Empire-State-in-construction-Chrysler-Bldg-Daily-News-in-middle-foreground.-1931--199x123.jpg "Balancing on the Empire State, 1920s")
Truman Capote
‘Irving Penn (1917 – 2009) was an American photographer known for his portraiture and fashion photography. He was among the first photographers to pose subjects against a simple grey or white backdrop. Expanding his austere studio surroundings, Penn constructed a set of upright angled backdrops, to form a stark, acute corner.’
Salvador Dali
Marlene Dietrich
Marcel Duchamp
Gypsy Rose Lee
Joe Louis
Georgia O'Keeffe
Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart
Igor Stravinsky
Spencer Tracy
Duchess of Windsor
Ballet Society
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Thank you to the Irving Penn foundation
After seeing some of these a dozen times, it’s only just now that I noticed something: What’s with the strings on the floor? I find it hard to believe a photographer with Penn’s attention to detail would miss them, so are they deliberately placed there? I wonder what’s the story there?
awesome.
Its not string… Its paint
I noticed the “strings ” also !
poo