Monday, September 14, 2009

LECTURE : Working Class: Irving Penn's Small Trades Series in Context (9/15)


In order to come to terms with his success as a fashion photographer, Penn needed to photograph other kinds of subjects as well. Colin Westerbeck, director of the California Museum of Photography at UC Riverside, explains how these 1950s studies of working-class people in their work clothes were a seminal project for the photographer in the context of his full career.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Getty Center, Harold M. Williams Auditorium


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