Irving Penn - Cigarettes

Venue details

Hamiltons Gallery
13 Carlos Place
W1K 2EU London
T: +44 20 7499 9493
www.hamiltonsgallery.com/

Event details

Who would have thought that picking up cigarette butts off the streets would make for a masterful photographic series. Irving Penn’s renowned series Cigarettes, first exhibited at New York City’s MoMA in 1975, is now being displayed in its entirety for the very first time, at Hamiltons Gallery, London. 

Cigarettes sheds light on the development of the still life under Penn’s lens, whereby something as disposable and worthless as a cigarette butt is endowed with artistic value. A total of 26 images are on display at the private gallery, in an exhibition that is very much up to museum standards. 

For more on this exhibition, visit the Hamiltons Gallery website.