IRVING PENN | 'HIPPIE FAMILY (KELLY)', SAN FRANCISCO, 1967
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May 16, 01:31 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
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IRVING PENN
1917-2009
'HIPPIE FAMILY (KELLY)', SAN FRANCISCO, 1967
Platinum-palladium print, printed 1976. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 1/25 in pencil and with the photographer's copyright stamp, the 'Hand-coated by the photographer' stamp, and 'In addition to 25 numbered prints of this image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 15 may exist' stamp on the reverse. Mounted and framed.
Image 42.4 x 36 cm (16 ¾ x 14 ¼ in.);
sheet 58.8 x 45.5 cm (22 ⅓ x 18 in.)
Private collection, UK
Irving Penn, Worlds in a Small Room, Grossman, New York, 1974, ill. p. 54;
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, ill. pl. 134;
Alexandra Arrowsmith, Nicola Majocchi and Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf/Callaway, New York, 1991, ill. p. 166.
‘In 1967 there was word coming out of San Francisco of something stirring—new ways of living that were exotic even for California. People spoke of a new kind of young people called hippies […] They seemed to have found a satisfying new life for themselves in leaving the society they were born to and in making their own. It grew on me that I would like to look into the faces of these new San Francisco people through a camera in a daylight studio, against a simple background, away from their own daily circumstances.’—Irving Penn