Great black and white photographers, PART 2 (:

Born June 16, 1917, Plainfield, N.J, died Oct. 7, 2009, New York, N.Y. American photographer noted for his sophisticated fashion images and incisive portraits.
Penn would  engaging  his subjectes to sit for hours so that he could get a feel of his or her  personality to the camera. The person is uselly posed infrot of a bare backdroop and is in a natural northern light.Three hundred of Penn's pictures were published in Moments Preserved (1960). He also had other books such as Wolds in a small room(1974), and Passage(1991). 400 examples of his work in portraiture, fashion,ethnic, studies, and still life. In 1996 he donated his archives to the Art Institute of Chicago. The museum organized a traveling retrospective of his work the following year.