We are pleased to announce that “Signature of Elegance – works by Lillian Bassman” will be held at Ryukoku University as part of the official program for the KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival following up its event at CHNEL NEXUS HALL.
Lillian Bassman was a leading fashion photographer of the legendary postwar generation that brought a new sense of freedom to the medium. Bassman began her career as a photographer at Harper’s Bazaar in 1948 and she was one of its leading contributors during the years of its greatest influence. Over the next twenty years, working with all of the major models of the day, she assembled a definitive body of work that captured the inner lives of sophisticated women. She turned from fashion photography to more personal forms of expression in the 1970s, but in the late 1996, at the age of seventy-nine, she returned to fashion photography, and since then her contributions to photography have gained her an international following.
This exhibition brings together a selection of some of Lillian’s iconic images over the period of her long artistic life at Ryukoku University Omiya Campus the Main Hall, an important cultural property.
Ryukoku University Omiya Campus, The Main Hall
Built in 1879, this symbolic building of the Omiya Campus is designated an important cultural property. Recent major renovation has restored it to its original elegant state. The first floor is occasionally used for exhibitions by student curators.
