IRVING PENN
(Plainfield 1917 - New York 2006)
Italian Intellectuals at Rome's Caffè Greco
October 12, 1948
vintage gelatin silver print on carton original
34x25 cm
signed and dated lower right "Irving Penn Rome 1948"
on the reverse stamp Copyright Conde Nast Publications Inc.
Famous picture taken by Irving Penn at Caffè Greco, Rome 1948. From left to right: Aldo Palazzeschi, Goffredo Petrassi, Mirko, Carlo Levi, Pericle Fazzini (standing), Afro, Renzo Vespignani, Libero de Libero, Sandro Penna (standing, at the back on the right), Lea Padovani, Orson Welles, Mario Mafai, Ennio Flaiano, Vitaliano Brancati, and Orfeo Tamburi (in the center).
Literature references
Irving Penn, Moment Preserved:Eight Essays in Photographs and Words, 1960
M. Onofri, Il poeta del desiderio, in L'Unità, Cultura e Società, May 20, 1997, p. 3
B. Sauders, But First, Coffee: Caffè Greco and the Beginnings of Italian Photography, 20 July 2017