Moments Preserved. Eight essays in photographs and words by Irving Penn

[Irving Penn]

Irving Penn's first book, packed full of his early images for Vogue magazine. The selection of photographs included in Moments Preserved were all taken between 1947 and 1959 and include fashion photographs, still lifes, landscapes and portraits. The 'eight essays' include 'Picasso's Barcelona', 'Faces of England', 'New York Scrapbook' and 'The Small Trades'. The layout and quality of image reproduction for the book was closely supervised by Penn himself.



Irving Penn. With an introduction by Alexander Liberman. Collaboration in the writing of the captions and text by Rosemary Blackmon. Simon and Schuster. New York. 1960. First edition; black dot on copyright statement. Hardback, quarto; beige cloth-bound boards, dust jacket; pictorial laminated-board slipcase. 183 pages. B&w and colour illustrations printed in gravure. English. 345 x 255mm. 2kg. . Very good, in very good dust jacket and slipcase; fragile jacket with one small 1cm tear to middle of spine, slight toning to spine and a small stain at base of spine; light shelf wear to slipcase. [Roth. The Book of 101 Books. p.158; Hasselblad. The Open Book. p.186; Auer. 802 Photo Books. p.401]