Irving Penn: Dahomey/Seascape I, 1967
© 2003 by Irving Penn
Courtesy Vogue
Photo courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Dahomey, 1967: Photographs by Irving Penn
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HOUSTON • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • Ongoing
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When Irving Penn (born 1917) was on assignment in Africa for Vogue magazine, working in Dahomey (now Benin), his daily driving route took him past a village where he discovered enormous mud sculptures of the deity Legba, a trickster god. Penn returned to Dahomey shortly thereafter to photograph the Legba sculptures. This show presents 17 photographs of the Legba deity, along with 11 of the Dahomey landscape, seascape, and villagers. Visitors to the exhibition who are familiar with Penn´s later, iconic fashion photographs will find many influences in his images of Dahomey.
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