new york times on Lillian Bassman
interesting article about this photographer also try an image search under her name or the link to the photo above which goes to the Stanley Wise Gallery.
As quoted by (notes on)
Politics, Theory & Photography
“In the period dominated by Avedon and Irving Penn, Ms. Bassman was one of the few female photographers in the fashion business, and her work had a distinctly different cast from the outset, one less distancing. In most of the lingerie pictures, for example, the faces are averted or obscured, the result of the Ford agency’s insistence that its models not be identifiable in such provocative advertising. The effect of this constraint is not cold anonymity but an unusual intimacy that leaves the images feeling almost entirely divorced from commodity, as if they were the visual entries in the personal journals of the women photographed.”
