Photographs
Photographs
IRVING PENN | 'HIPPIE FAMILY (KELLY)', SAN FRANCISCO, 1967
Auction Closed
May 16, 01:31 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
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.)
‘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