Irving Penn, the Small Trades series
For more than sixty years, Irving Penn (1917-2009) marked the history of photography with his fashion images, still lifes and portraits.
In the early 1950s, he began the "Small Trades" series. This personal project was based on his admiration for the depictions of workers. Recruited from the streets of Paris, London and New York, the models would come to Penn's studio in their work clothes.
Salesmen, newsboys, ragpickers, chimney sweeps, all posed in the neutral territory of the New York photographer's studio, convinced that many of these activities would disappear.
| Full price | 5 € |
| Subscriber rate | Free |
For the general public
Duration: 1h30
Reservation on site, at the reception of the Franciscans, and online
With a PhD in art history, Anne Lacoste began her curatorial career at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles in 2005 and later served as curator of exhibitions at the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne from 2011 to 2017. Her numerous exhibition and publication projects span the history of photography. Since 2017, she has been the director of the Institute for Photography of Hauts-de-France and since 2019, she is a member of the Planches Contact jury.
 This exhibition was conceived by the MEP in collaboration with Les Franciscaines |