Hell's Angels, San Francisco, 1967
Details
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Hell's Angels, San Francisco, 1967
gelatin silver print, printed 1984
signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '7586' in ink, inscribed 'To Pat Merry Christmas' in pencil, copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the reverse of the mount); one from an edition of 20
19½ x 22 7/8in. (49.8 x 58.6cm.)
Hell's Angels, San Francisco, 1967
gelatin silver print, printed 1984
signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '7586' in ink, inscribed 'To Pat Merry Christmas' in pencil, copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the reverse of the mount); one from an edition of 20
19½ x 22 7/8in. (49.8 x 58.6cm.)
Literature
Penn, Worlds in a Small Room, Grossman, 1974, p. 51; Szarkowski, Irving Penn, The Museum of Modern Art, 1984, pl. 142; Foresta and Stapp, Irving Penn: Master Images, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990, cat. no. 97, p. 133; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf Callaway, 1991, p. 167; Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art Yale University Press, 2005, pl. 49
Further Details
From the series of Penn's portraits of members of San Francisco's counter-cultural scene that were first published in a dedicated feature in Look, January 9 1968. This group was titled 'The Outrageous'. One of the subjects is quoted: 'There's only one thing that really means anything to me and that's the Hell's Angel patch I wear. I can get me anything else - a new bike, a new old lady or money - but I can't get me another patch.... My brothers - that's my whole life. My brothers. It's all I've got.'
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