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Irving Penn: Small Trades By Virginia A. Heckeit and Anne Lacoste I. Paul Getty Museum Foreword by Michael Brand 272 pages, 250 images Hardcover, $49.95
Irving Penn: Small Trades is a lovely, big book that reproduces a series of portraits the late photographer first made while photographing people from different parts of the world using his Rolleiflex camera, a portable studio, a simple backdrop and natural light, a technique he used most famously in Worlds in a Small Room, 1974. Whereas that book combined the various ethnographic studies Penn had...