Fashion photographer Lillian Bassman’s black-and-white photographs elegantly yet sensuously portray chic, modern women in New York during the 1950s and 1960s. Her images convey a dreamlike world of cool repose, seemingly rendered in “painterly strokes of light.” Typically tall and attractive, her glamorous subjects exude a daring, seductive expression “that comes from keeping secrets.” During a time when women were confined to traditional feminine roles, Bassman captured them “with a woman’s eye for a woman’s intimate feelings.”
