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Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Lillian Bassman

Lillian Bassman was an American photographer and painter.

American - Photographer | June 15, 1917 - February 13, 2012

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Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background. — © Lillian Bassman

Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.

Lillian Bassman

Lillian Bassman

The women who intrigued me [as models] had the most beautiful necks and the most responsive hand movements. At one point, I found El Greco, and that elongated look became my way of seeing.

Lillian Bassman

Lillian Bassman

It was sexually a very different thing when [the models] worked with men. They felt a charge... I caught them when they were relaxed, natural, and I spent a lot of time talking to them about their husbands, their lovers, their babies.

Lillian Bassman

Lillian Bassman

[When I photograph] I project what I'm not. What I would like to be.

Lillian Bassman

Lillian Bassman

I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world.

Lillian Bassman

Lillian Bassman

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