Lillian Bassman
Lillian Bassman ( born June 15, 1917 in New York; † February 13, 2012 ibid ) was an American painter and photographer.
Life
Her parents were Jewish immigrants who came from Russia and the USA in 1905 in Brooklyn, New York, settled. 1933 Lillian studied graphic design at the Textile High School in Manhattan where she met and later married the photographer Paul Himmel, whom she married in 1935. Topics of their past together with her husband photographic works were the war in Europe and the poverty of the population.
In the 40s to the 60s, she participated as art director for Junior Bazaar and later at Harper 's Bazaar and promoted the careers of photographers such as Richard Avedon, Robert Frank, Louis Faurer and Arnold Newman. Under the guidance of the Russian emigrant Alexey Brodovitch, she began even to photograph, mainly in black / white, and published their works for the most part in Harper 's Bazaar 1950-1965. A feature of her photographs is that they are relatively blurred and at the border of the knowable are.
Lillian Bassman was one of the great formative photographers in the fashion world.