Five years ago, at 87, Ms. Bassman discovered the glories of Photoshop and so began a new chapter in digital photography. She works every day in her studio, toying and reconfiguring from about 11 in the morning until dinnertime, and claims a proud proficiency with her computer. It is a skill however that does not extend to the use of e-mail or Google. “I’m not interested,” she said, “in any of that.”
NYT slideshow
Lillian Bassman, Then and Now exhibition at Staley Wise in NYC.
The book, Lillian Bassman, from 1997 is out of print but a new book will be published in the fall.
© Lillian Bassman
© Lillian Bassman, 1951
Great to see an appreciative post of Bassman's work. The New York Times article was timed in part to Bassman's one woman show at KMR Arts (www.kmrarts.com) in Washington Depot, Ct. Perhaps you would be interested in the current show at KMR Arts, Paris a La Mode: “Paris à La Mode” includes works by Roger Catherineau, Georges Dambier, William Klein, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Jean Moral and Louis Stettner. “Paris: à la Mode”contains photographs that evoke moments of style, grace and fashion. As McCarver Root says, “From the prewar images of Jean Moral for Harper’s Bazaar to William Klein’s mod interpretations of fashion’s shift in the 1960’s, the influence of twentieth century Paris is limitless.”
ReplyDeleteBrilliant photograph, if I did not know who it was by I would have thought Bresson
ReplyDeleteBrilliant photograph, if I did not know who it was by I would have thought Bresson
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