ISBN-10: 0810982609 | ISBN-13: 978-0810982604 | Publication Date: October 1, 2009 | Edition: First Edition
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.
Deborah Solomon is the author of Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell and Jackson Pollock: A Biography. She writes the weekly "Questions For" column in the New York Times Magazine, where she is also known for her profiles of people in the art world. Previously, she was art critic for the Wall Street Journal. She lives in New York City.
Product Details
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Abrams; First Edition edition (October 1, 2009)
This review is from: Lillian Bassman: Women (Hardcover)
If you love fashion photography or beautiful images in general, do not hesitate to buy this book. Incredible images in a beautifully put together book. There is something so otherworldly about Bassman's photos - it's as though your looking at a dream sequence. I found it easy to get lost in her work.
All images are in black in white - and take up the entire page. Truly stunning. I'm thinking about buying a second copy so I can frame some of the images.
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I first saw Lillian's photo in B&W Photo magazine about 5 years ago, and memorized name. It heavily influenced my portraiture work and processing for about year, then i drifted away to find my own style, but as someone who coming from exactly same background as she is - art school and then photography - I never ever ever would cease to gasp in awe at her portraits and appreciate beauty of them. Its just fantastic. If you ever shooting portraiture and studying real masters - this is a MUST.
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I was lucky enough to see her show in L.A. recently and she is fantastic. This is a gorgeous book with very special photographs. She is being touted as the next Horst or Avedon, and I can believe it.
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