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Photograph

01/03/1950 (made)

20thC; Bassman Lillian

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Object details

Object type
Photograph
Brief description
20thC; Bassman Lillian
Dimensions
  • Image height: 337mm
  • Image width: 270mm
  • Paper height: 353mm
  • Paper width: 278mm
  • Mount height: 420mm
  • Mount width: 353mm
Gallery label
(07 03 2014)
‘Selling Dreams: One Hundred Years of Fashion Photography’, 2014. Label text:

Lillian Bassman (b.1917)
Dress by Omar Kiam for Ben Reig
American Harper’s Bazaar, 1950

Bassman said of her photographs: ‘I almost always focus on a long, elegant neck.’ The ethereal quality of her work was achieved by printing through tissue or removing one element of the camera lens to produce a soft-focus effect. Here, the individual white dots on the dress were hand painted onto the photograph after printing.

Gelatin silver print
Given by Lillian Bassman
Museum no. PH.16-1986
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
PH.16-1986

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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