How does irving penn define elegance by photography?

His portrait photography was influenced by American photographer Walker? Influenced by the works of Walker Evans and French photographer Eugene Atget, it continues the light consumption and visual style of fashion photography, showing strong personal characteristics.

His portraits were all taken on the same gray background. His unique mobile studio (an old gray canvas) can shoot quickly for everyone wherever he goes. Different people present different expressions, body language and psychological states in the same background, and highlight the characteristics of portraits with light, shadow and details. A simple background can highlight a primitive, simple and natural aesthetic feeling.

Payne has his own understanding of fashion photography, and shows obvious personal style in the cover shooting in the future. Because of his artistic accomplishment in painting, Payne brought art form into fashion shooting. His works intentionally ignore the narrative, the picture is simple, mainly in black and white, excluding the early style of attaching importance to the story and plot, highlighting the model's clothing and accessories with light and shadow and structure, showing a simple modern sense. He improved the "traditional portrait" mode of fashion photography, which made fashion photography get rid of the early vulgar advertising role and enter the aesthetic category, swept away the stereotype in fashion photography at that time, opened up a new world with fresh style and distinctive personality, and made him a pioneer of fashion photography.