Lillian Bassman (June 15, 1917 – February 13, 2012) was an American photographer and painter.
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.
[When I photograph] I project what I'm not. What I would like to be.
I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world.
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.
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.
Martin Winterkorn
Emily Carr
Heo Young-saeng
Wayne Thiebaud
Philippe Dauman
Geza Vermes
William C. Menninger
Andre Siegfried
Terry Stotts
Scott McClellan
Steven Soderbergh
Matt Ghaffari