Irving Penn: Small Trades
- When:
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Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays : (ends January 10)
- Price:
- Free
- Event Phone Number:
- 310-440-7330
- Neighborhood: Brentwood
- 1200 Getty Center Dr.
- Los Angeles, CA 90049
- 310-440-7330
Working in Paris, New York and London in the 1950s, Irving Penn's photographs capture day laborers of the time.
From Christopher Knight's review in the Times:
"The Getty exhibition, “Irving Penn: Small Trades,” is filled with black-and-white photographs like this, one of 252 in a set Penn assembled. The Getty acquired the set last year, and it's having its debut in the show. They were taken in Paris, London and New York between 1950 and 1951, when the photographer was 33 (he's now 92), and they include mostly prints made then or in the 1960s.
The format is pretty much the same throughout, whether the sitter is a fishmonger, contortionist, fireman, waiter, newspaper seller, rag picker, brick layer, deep-sea diver, ballroom dancing teacher or chimney sweep. Full-length, frontal, mostly standing, dressed in work clothes and holding an attribute — fish, fire hose, trowel, broom, etc. — the compositions are organized like a scientific typology. The sitter is a specific individual, but he stands in for a group."
Getting There
- Parking:
- On Site. $8
The Basics
- Hours:
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Tuesday–Thursday and Sunday
10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Friday and Saturday
10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.
Closed Monday and on January 1, July 4, Thanksgiving, and December 25.
- Museum Type:
- Art
