Irving Penn (2017)

Irving Penn: Centennial, Metropolitan Museum of Art hardcover, 2017 The safest gift on the list, because it is still in print at the Met's own store, listed at $70. The catalog of the Met's 2017 centennial show is a 10 by 12 inch hardcover of 372 pages and 365 illustrations, and it places Penn's fashion pictures beside his nudes, still lifes and portraits of people in Peru, Benin, New Guinea and Morocco. Seeing the same spare studio approach applied to a couture dress and a still life is what makes the fashion work click, and the museum production gives the pictures the care they need.