A Life Fashioning Art

In her lifetime, Lillian Bassman’s photographs went from fashion to fine art. Yet Ms. Bassman – who died this week in New York at the age of 94 – showed all along a vision that was as ethereal as it was graphically striking.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/a-life-fashioning-art/?pagewanted=all

In her lifetime, Lillian Bassman’s photographs went from fashion to fine art. Yet Ms. Bassman – who died on Monday in New York at the age of 94 – showed all along a vision that was as ethereal as it was graphically striking, evoking a world of gauzy portraits with sharp contrasts and romantic moods.