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American photographer and painter (1917-2012)

Lillian Bassman (June 15, 1917 – February 13, 2012) was an American photographer and painter.

Early life and background

Her parents were Jewish intellectuals who emigrated to the United States from Ukraine (then in Russia) in 1905 and settled in Brooklyn, New York.

She grew up in Brooklyn and Greenwich Village, New York,^[1] and studied at the Textile High School in Manhattan with future artist Alexey Brodovitch^[2] and graduated in 1933.

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Lillian Bassman (June 15, – February 13, ) was an American photographer and painter.

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Biography.

Lillian worked as a textile designer and fashion illustrator before working at Harper's Bazaar in In , she photographed her first Paris couture.

Career

From the 1940s until the 1960s Bassman worked as a fashion photographer and art director for Junior Bazaar^[3][4] and Harper's Bazaar^[3][5] where she 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 to photograph her model subjects primarily in black and white. Her work was