大都會藝術博物館歐文·佩恩百年回顧大展

天下 07-27

近日，美國大都會藝術博物館舉辦了美國著名攝影家歐文·佩恩（Irving Penn）（1917-2009年）的百年回顧大展。這是迄今為止，對於這位攝影家最全面的回顧展。這位縱橫70年的美國當代攝影大師，1917年出生於新澤西，大學就讀於費城博物館學院，師從阿列克謝·布魯多維奇 (Alexey Brodovitch).從畫家到音樂家，演員、哲學家、他拍攝了無數傳奇人物，隨後自己也成為了傳奇。歐文·佩恩是從拍靜物開始進入攝影圈的，之後做過戰地記者，遂逐步進入肖像攝影領域。在為Vogue工作期間，Irving Penn逐步探索出自己的獨特風格，尤其擅長構建精巧的三維、二維場景，極大地影響了二戰後人們對時尚攝影的觀念。人們都說安妮·萊博維茨（Annie Leibovitz）開創了當代肖像攝影的新模式，那麼，早於她20年前，歐文·佩恩就開創了棚內肖像攝影的新風格。他喜歡將「攝影棚」帶在身上（這個「攝影棚」實際上就是一張舊的油畫布），走到哪裡都在這個特定的背景中按下快門，所以I歐文·佩恩幾乎所有作品都是棚片效果。

此次展覽展出了2015年由歐文·佩恩基金戶捐贈給大都會藝術博物館的150件作品。這些作品包括了歐文·佩恩各時期的經典之作。展覽持續到7月30日。

The most comprehensive retrospective to date of the work of the great American photographer Irving Penn (1917–2009), this exhibition marks the centennial of the artist s birth. Over the course of his nearly 70-year career, Penn mastered a pared-down aesthetic of studio photography that is distinguished for its meticulous attention to composition, nuance, and detail.

The exhibition follows the 2015 announcement of the landmark promised gift from The Irving Penn Foundation to The Met of more than 150 photographs by Penn, representing every period of the artist s dynamic career with the camera. The gift forms the core of the exhibition, which features more than 200 photographs by Penn, including iconic fashion studies of Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, the artist s wife; exquisite still lifes; Quechua children in Cuzco, Peru; portraits of urban laborers; female nudes; tribesmen in New Guinea; and color flower studies. The artist s beloved portraits of cultural figures from Truman Capote, Picasso, and Colette to Ingmar Bergman and Issey Miyake are also featured. Rounding out the exhibition are photographs by Penn that entered The Met collection prior to the promised gift.