Currently showing at Peter Fetterman Gallery in Bergamot Station over in Santa Monica. Exhibit runs till Jan 31, 2009. Check it out while it is still there !
Text from Farmani Gallery :
Lillian Bassman's experimental and romantic visions revolutionized fashion photography. In fact, Vanity Fair magazine singled her out as one of photography's "grand masters." Full of mystery, sensuality, and expressionistic glamour, Bassman's dramatic black and white photographs capture secret moments and dream memories. Her work is elegant, graceful and totally original. Bassman's unique images achieve their effect through darkroom manipulation, specifically by blurring and bleaching areas of the photographs.
Ms. Bassman started her career under the tutelage of Alexy Brodovich, the Art Director of Harper's Bazaar, and ultimately decided to learn photography herself. A friend of Richard Avedon, she was given permission to use his studio while he was in Paris.
Bassman's photo shoot of a model in lingerie impressed the model enough to show her advertising executive husband, and suddenly, after only two months as a photographer, Bassman's career truly took flight at Harper's Bazaar.
At Harper's Bazaar from the 40s through the 60s, Lillian Bassman brought a sophisticated, new aesthetic to fashion photography with her elegant, moody, and often abstract images.
Peter Fetterman Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Ave. Gallery A7
Santa Monica, CA 90404
http://www.peterfetterman.com/
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