Irving Penn (1917-2009)
THREE WINES OF FRANCE, NEW YORK, 1953, C-type print, printed later, image size, 585 x 470mm, with the photographer's Conde Nast credit stamp verso

Irving Penn, Moments Preserved, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1960, p. 16. Penn explains: ‘The recorded glimpses of wine ... belong to the warm atmosphere of good living that means France at its best, a yardstick of elegance wherever there are people with civilized memories’.