Details
IRVING PENN
Three Women of Rissani, Morocco (1971)
Multiple-printed and hand-coated platinum-palladium print on Rives paper with aluminum backing. 1978. Signed, titled, dated, numbered in pencil and copyright stamp on the reverse of the mount. Number 25/32 in platinum metals. 21½ x 19½in.
Three Women of Rissani, Morocco (1971)
Multiple-printed and hand-coated platinum-palladium print on Rives paper with aluminum backing. 1978. Signed, titled, dated, numbered in pencil and copyright stamp on the reverse of the mount. Number 25/32 in platinum metals. 21½ x 19½in.
Literature
Irving Penn, pl. 93; Worlds in a Small Room, p. 79; Passage, p. 198.
Penn's account of these desert Arabs is: they are completely covered in black, except for one eye peeking through a small opening in the draping. They are desert Arabs who probably walked miles through the Ziz River valley to the souk of Rissani to sell jewels and baskets. One woman holds three loaves of flat, round peasant bread. The Arab women are very timid about posing. It is said that they feel the camera is an evil eye that can steal the soul.
Penn's account of these desert Arabs is: they are completely covered in black, except for one eye peeking through a small opening in the draping. They are desert Arabs who probably walked miles through the Ziz River valley to the souk of Rissani to sell jewels and baskets. One woman holds three loaves of flat, round peasant bread. The Arab women are very timid about posing. It is said that they feel the camera is an evil eye that can steal the soul.