Photograph
01/03/1950 (made)
20thC; Bassman Lillian
Object details
| Object type | |
| Brief description | 20thC; Bassman Lillian |
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| Gallery label | ‘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
(07 03 2014) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | PH.16-1986 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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