Photo: Lillian Bassman
Photo: Lillian Bassman
Photo: Lillian Bassman
Damon Winter/The New York Times
The photographer Lillian Bassman, now 92 years old, worked steadily from the late 1940's to the early 1960's creating expressive, gorgeous images mostly for Harper's Bazaar. Her composition, design, and the way she altered photos for dramatic flair, transformed and elevated fashion photography. Bassman's particular vision of women is ethereal and elegant; the female form is lushly celebrated and often abstract. Looking at her images, the beauty of the models is immediate; they are neither risqué nor innocent, but instead confident and whole beings captured in a moment of reflection. This fall, Abrams is releasing a new book of Bassman's work, Lillian Bassman: Women.
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