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LILLIAN BASSMAN: WOMEN - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(BASSMAN, LILLIAN). Solomon, Deborah. New York: Abrams, 2009. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Fashion Monograph. As New/As New. 242pp, profusely illustrated in tritone. Designed by Kwasi Osei. Art Direction by Michelle Ishay. With a chronology. "With more than one hundred and forty of her best images reproduced in stunning tritone, including many never published before and others not seen since they appeared in the pages of the legendary "Harper's Bazaar" of the 1950s, "Lillian Bassman: Women" offers a retrospective view of an extraordinary career in photography. At ninety-one and still hard at work, Bassman is a beloved figure in the pantheon of fashion photographers. Her signature style, once described by Richard Avedon as making "visible that heart-breaking invisible place between the appearance and the disappearance of things" offered a sensuous and intimate vision of modern women. Says Judith Thurman: "Bassman's women - perennially soulful, elusively chic - have the poignance of an endangered species". A brand new, pristine example of this exquisitely designed and printed survey additionally SIGNED "Lillian Bassman" in black ink on a specially printed bookplate affixed by the photographer's gallerist opposite the half title page. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-8109-8260-9 Inventory Number: 024319