On How to Be a Retronaut, a gallery of Irving Penn's "Corner Portraits" — black and white photos of celebrities shot wedged into narrow corners in his studio. The effect is striking, making models like Marlene Dietrich (thumbnail shown here) seem even more angular and isolated.
Irving Penn's photos of celebrities crammed into corners
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