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Colin Westerbeck, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography , Art Institute of Chicago/Little, Brown and Co., 1997, pl. 4.
Maria Morris Hambourg et Jeff Rosenheim, Irving Penn Centennial , The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press, New York, Londres, 2017, p. 339.