Lillian Bassman quotes
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“I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world.”
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“[When I photograph] I project what I'm not. What I would like to be.”
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“The women who intrigued me [as models] had the most beautiful necks and the most responsive hand movements. At one point, I found El Greco, and that elongated look became my way of seeing.”
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“Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.”
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“It was sexually a very different thing when [the models] worked with men. They felt a charge... I caught them when they were relaxed, natural, and I spent a lot of time talking to them about their husbands, their lovers, their babies.”
-- Lillian Bassman
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