With more than 140 of her best images reproduced in stunning tritone,
including many never published before and others not seen since they
appeared in the pages of the legendary Harper's Bazaar of the 1950s,
Lillian Bassman: Women offers a retrospective view of an extraordinary
career in photography.
At 91 and still hard at work, Bassman is a beloved figure in the
pantheon of fashion photographers. Her signature style, once described
by Richard Avedon as making visible that heart-breaking invisible place
between the appearance and the disappearance of things, offered a
sensuous and intimate vision of modern women. Says Judith Thurman,
Bassman's women--perennially soulful, elusively chic--have the poignance
of an endangered species.
Well-known art writer and journalist Deborah Solomon contributes an
introduction. An illustrated chronology gives a cinematic overview of a
remarkable life.