Irving Penn’s Blue-Collar Portraits

Acquired by the Getty Museum in LA. Everyone will find this part of the story very interesting:

“Weston Naef, the Getty’s senior photography curator, said that the museum had been working to acquire the series for more than five years, but the sticking point had been copyright ownership of the images. In many cases, he said, Mr. Penn and Condé Nast, which owns Vogue, share the copyrights to Mr. Penn’s images. And the Getty, which had long insisted that it be given copyright power over the trade series, along with the master set of the photographs, decided in the end to abandon the copyright demand.”

Thanks Bruce. Via NYTimes (here).