Contact Lens, New York

Photography and Media

1981, printed 1984

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Irving Penn
Title: Contact Lens, New York
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1981
Medium: Dye imbibition print
Edition: of 17
Inscriptions: Stamped and inscribed verso: REF. 1175 ; inscribed verso: CONTACT LENS / NEW YORK 1981 [in a box] ; stamped and inscribed verso: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1981 by / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC. / not to be reproduced without / written permission of the copyright owner. ; inscribed verso: Print made 1984. / I.P. ; signed and stamped verso: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN [in a circle].
Dimensions: Image: 49.3 × 39.8 cm (19 7/16 × 15 11/16 in.); Paper: 51.1 × 41.3 cm (20 1/8 × 16 5/16 in.); Mount: 57.8 × 47.4 cm (22 13/16 × 18 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Irving Penn
Reference Number: 1996.247
Copyright: Copyright Condé Nast Publications, Inc.

Szarkowski, John. 1984. “Irving Penn.” Exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art/New York Graphic Society Books. pl. 101. (other print of this image)
Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 109, cat. 126, pl. 59.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Irving Penn, A Career in Photography,” November 22, 1997–February 1, 1998; traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, State Hermitage Museum, March 1–May 16, 1998; Hamburg, Germany, Deichtorhallen, June 18–September 6, 1998; Munich, Germany, Müchner Stadtmuseum, October 6, 1998–February 21, 1999; San Francisco, California, Friends of Photography/Ansel Adams Center for Photography, November 11, 1999–January 23, 2000; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 25–June 4, 2000; Paris, France, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, September 13–November 5, 2000. (Colin Westerbeck)
Art Institute of Chicago, Inaugural Modern Wing Exhibition, May 16–September 7, 2009. (Matthew S. Witkovsky)

Given by the artist to the Art Institute, 1996.

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