"I almost always focus on a long, elegant neck", said Bassman of this photograph featured in Harper's Bazaar. Her shadow, sensual pictures are known for their gentle intimacy, "Women didn't have to seduce me the way they did male photographers. There was a kind of inner calm between the model and myself". Her images were created by innovative printing techniques such as bleaching areas to give results that resembled charcoal drawings, recalling Bassman's early career as a fashion illustrator before being apprenticed to Alexey Brodovitch. Bassman's work is more evocative of moods than subjects and has not always been understood. Carmel Snow, former editor of Harper's Bazaar, once berated Bassman for photographing a diaphanous Piguet gown to resemble butterfly wings, saying, "You are not here to make art, you are here to photograph buttons and bows"_ a landmark in the debate about the purpose of fashion photography.
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