Hippie Family, 1967 25-½" x 22-½" Hand-Coated Platinum-Palladium Print by Irving Penn, Edition 11 of 48....

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Hippie Family, 1967 25-½" x 22-½" Hand-Coated Platinum-Palladium Print by Irving Penn, Edition 11 of 48. Hand-Coated Platinum-Palladium 25-½" x 22-½" print (image size 20-¾" x 19-½") of Hippie Family, (Ferguson), San Francisco, 1967 (P1752) by Irving Penn, Edition 11 of 48, printed August 1976, with Platinum-palladium print made August 1976 in graphite, with Deacidified rubber stamp, Hand-coated by the photographer rubber stamp, with signature in graphite, and PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN Copyright © 1967 by Cowles Communications INC rubber stamp on the verso. Very Fine-, with light through water stain at the upper right margin corner, not extending into the image, and hinge remnants on the verso.

Inscribed verso: "Hippie Family F." / (P 1752 (circled) / in graphite: "Palladium-Palladium Print made August 1976" / "11/48" / signed and stamped: "Irving Penn" / Hand-coated by the photographer (circled); artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1967 and COWLES COMMUNICATIONS INC / stamped: In addition to 48 (graphite addition) numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of 15 (graphite addition) may exist.

Version at National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Irving Penn.
Exhibited at Irving Penn: Photographs at Pace Gallery, Palo Alto, April 11 - May 26, 2019; and Irving Penn: Small Trades, 1960s San Francisco, Fashion at Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada, November 24, 2021 - March 26, 2022.
Reproduced in Look, January 9, 1968, p. 58; and Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Irving Penn, Alexandra Arrowsmith, Nicola Majocchi, Alfred A. Knopf, 1991, p. 166.

"Penn rented a barnlike building in Sausalito, with windows facing north to capture the soft sunlight and a reinforced second floor. The northern exposure was crucial because Penn only photographed using available sunlight. The reinforced floor was also crucial because Penn asked his subjects among the Hells Angels to ride their Harleys into the freight elevator and punch the button for the second floor, then ride out into the makeshift studio to pose for their portraits.
Over the course of several weeks, Penn shot the Angels, and bands, in portraits and in groups. Amazingly, he was able to persuade the members of the Grateful Dead and Big Brother & the Holding Company to pose together for a team picture.
His images became an eight-page Look photo spread titled "The Incredibles," which ran on Jan. 9, 1968."

"The Incredibles"

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