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Irving Penn

♂  American, 1917–2009

Irving Penn has been in 28 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1948 and 1988.

28 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition In and Out of Focus: A Survey of Today's Photography

6 April to 11 July 1948

Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Walker Evans and Berenice Abbott, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

27 July to 26 September 1948

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The 28th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art of the New York Art Directors Club

15 March to 17 April 1949

Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Morris Graves, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Color Photography

9 May to 4 July 1950

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photographs by 51 Photographers

1 August to 17 September 1950

Harry Callahan, Irving Penn, Robert Frank and Charles Eames, among others, were involved.

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12 Photographers

12 July to 12 August 1951

Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Then and Now

5–18 August 1952

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Family of Man

24 January to 8 May 1955

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photographs from the Museum Collection

26 November 1958 to 18 January 1959

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

18–29 November 1959

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Portraits from the Museum Collection

4 May to 18 September 1960

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.

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50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

3 April to 15 May 1962

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Edward Steichen Photography Center

Started 27 May 1964

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Photographer's Eye

27 May to 23 August 1964

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Photo Essay

16 March to 16 May 1965

John Szarkowski, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange and Irving Penn, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Glamour Portraits

2 August to 19 September 1965

Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski, Man Ray and Irving Penn, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Steichen Gallery Reinstallation

Started 25 October 1967

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photography as Printmaking

19 March to 27 May 1968

Edward Steichen, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.

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Portrait Photographs

9 July to 28 September 1969

Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Irving Penn: Recent Works

19 May to 3 August 1975

John Szarkowski and Irving Penn were involved.

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New York/New York

11 September to 13 November 1978

Charles Sheeler, John Marin, Edward Hopper and Stuart Davis, among others, were involved.

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People Watching

1 October to 27 November 1979

Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Berenice Abbott and David Hockney, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation

Started 21 December 1979

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Reinstallation of the Collection

Started 23 October 1980

Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, Jasper Johns and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Still Life

8 October 1981 to 3 January 1982

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Irving Penn

12 September to 27 November 1984

John Szarkowski and Irving Penn were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840–1985

7 November 1985 to 7 January 1986

Edward Steichen, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Picturing "Greatness"

14 January to 17 April 1988

Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz, among others, were involved.