Lingerie

Stunning images of women in intimate apparel from the artist heralded as "among the most important fashion photographers of the twentieth century" (The New York Times).

Through the 1950s and the early 1960s, working with that era's supermodels, fashion photographer Lillian Bassman created the quintessential modern feminine image of women in their lingerie. As Ginia Bellafante put it in the New York Times recently, "In place of heavyset women constraining themselves in what was essentially...