{"product_id":"a-notebook-at-random-9780821261927","title":"A Notebook at Random","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom his very first photograph made on assignment for Vogue in 1943 to the fresh images that he continues to make for that magazine today at age eighty-seven  Irving Penn again and again has shown an uncanny ability to surprise the world with his art. Far from a typical career retrospective  A Notebook at Random is a revelation. Included here are some of Penns signature images - austere  elegantly composed portraits  still lifes  and fashion photographs - along with rough sketches and line drawings that provide a window into ideas and images in the making. A consummate technician and innovator  Penn invites us to consider process alongside end product  providing new insight into his radical compositions  experiments with light  and unique printing techniques. A Notebook at Random is populated with artists  writers  and models whose lives intersected with Penns: Picasso  Jean Cocteau  and Lisa Fonssagrives look out at us with that timeless intensity that characterizes an Irving Penn portrait. Many of the photographs presented here are alternate poses or torn test fragments  pages from his personal \"notebook\"; some are newer discoveries  including a previously unpublished portrait of Truman Capote. Some of the most striking pages in this \"notebook\" reproduce Penns paintings  painted photographs  and mixed-media works  images so layered and exquisitely constructed that they resemble cubist assemblages. And in keeping with Penns long-standing commitment to the optimal presentation of his work  this book is produced to the most exacting standards: fine paper  full cloth binding  and reproductions that are almost indistinguishable from his originals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789698162741,"sku":"ByrdShop_0821261924","price":84.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780821261927.jpg?v=1784694841","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-notebook-at-random-9780821261927","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}