Vintage Allies Quarterly Magazine VAV! MAG the world had believed. Over twenty years later, the bag and her marvelous works were uncovered. Bassman is enjoying a resurgence at fashions forefront, with exhibitions at museums and galleries worldwide. At this date, it is reported she is experimenting with digital technology and abstract color photography creating a new series of work.
Her work is symbolic of one of the great creative personalities of our time.
By Starlight Reporter Lillian Bassman, is among one of the most important fashion photographers of the 20th century. She was born in 1917, the child of Russian émigrés who moved from New Haven to Brooklyn and Greenwich Village. She dabbled in painting and textile design, was arrested and booked under the pseudonym "Rosa Bonheur" after a political protest, and married Paul Himmel after twelve years of living together. They had two children, Eric and Lizzie. Lillian found success at Harper's Bazaar in her work as a photographer until 1971. Bassman’s provocative images so teased the eye and conjured up a euphoric sensual dream world that soon, she was in constant demand. By the 1970’s Bassman’s pure interest clashed with the changing fashion world. Disheartened, she abandoned fashion photography in favor of her own projects. Lillian neatly disposed of nearly 40 years of her life’s work in a forgotten bag, or so Vintage Allies Quarterly Magazine (VAV! MAG)
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