“You see, when models work with men, they strike up a pose and so on…..with me they were always totally relaxed. I was just a woman photographing another woman who was very relaxed as well”
~ Lillian Bassman
(1917 - 2012)
Lillian was without doubt one of the greatest 20th Century fashion photographers. No less a cultural arbiter of taste, Alexey Brodovitch recognized her talent early on and invited her to join his Design Laboratory at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan. Later she would be invited to join him at Harper’s Bazaar where her career first started to flourish. As Richard Avedon once said of his colleague, friend and contemporary, “She makes visible that heartbreaking invisible place between the appearance and the disappearance of things.”
