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...It might be “What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong, or “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor, one of dozens chosen by staff....
...It is one of a series taken by Irving Penn in 1997, and makes him look, he says, like “an insane Alan Bennett”....
...Additional reporting by Gloria Cheung...
...His shadowy portraits of Noël Coward, George Gershwin and Gary Cooper are highly sought-after, and a silver gelatin print of his 1924 shot of the lace-covered face of Gloria Swanson, the silent film star...
...The result is a masterpiece of symbolic representation and nostalgia: Penn called the portraits “residual images of enchantment”....
...One lot at the Christie’s sale, a photograph of Gloria Vanderbilt, the debutante, taken in 1940, sold for $10,000....
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