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Lillian Bassman @ Edwynn Houk Gallery

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Lillian Bassman
12 MAY – 8 JULY 2016

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, 12 MAY 6PM-8PM

A seminal figure in the history of fashion photography, Lillian Bassman’s photographs appeared on the pages of Harper’s Bazaar from the 1940s through the 1960s. She trained and worked under famed art director Alexey Brodovitch, eventually becoming art director of Junior Bazaar in 1945, until the magazine’s closing in 1948. While working as art director, Bassman regularly hired photographers such as Richard Avedon, Arnold Newman, and Robert Frank. By 1946, Bassman began taking her own photographs and swiftly transitioned from art director to fashion photographer. Her first photograph was published in Bazaar in 1946 and her first editorial story in 1948.

Edwynn Houk Gallery
745 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10151


Location: New York, New York City, United States Type:

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