"oh! isto é tão contemporâneo"

IRVING PENN
WOMAN WITH LONG BLACK NECK
(Jean Patchett - New York - 1951)

Penn’s subject - as in “Woman with Long Black Neck
(Jean Patchett),” New York, 1951 - is not performance
but inner poise, and the dignity of appearances became
his central theme.

(Postscript - Irving Penn by Adam Gopnik
October 19 - 2009 @ www.newyorker.com)