Lillian Bassman Bazaar and Beyond
Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesCan fashion photography be dangerous? Lillian Bassman was told as much when, in 1950, she started making photographs so abstract that you could barely see the clothes. Depicting midcentury style for the pages of magazines, she distilled gowns and girdles to their essential silhouettes; in her photographs, chance gestures and elegant lines convey the sensations […]
