the annual poster sale was taking place on campus. the beginning of a new school year, with sparsely decorated apartments to fill. at first i was overwhelmed by the sheer volume of posters that were there, and let me tell you flipping through those poster bound catalogs is no easy feat (those things weigh a ton!), but after discarding the perennial pink floyd album covers and godfather movie posters, i found some diamonds in the rough.
albeit cliche diamonds, considering i adhered to every twenty-something year old girl rule and selected black&white photographs of audrey hepburn and marilyn monroe. however the marilyn monroe picture in particular, it was the one where she was putting on makeup in a bathroom, made me want to look for more photos of women caught candidly on film while simultaneously capturing the very essence of being a woman. here's what i found:
“Lillian Bassman: Women,” is opening October 10 at the Peter Fetterman Gallery in Santa Monica. Bassman was the Art Director of Harper’s Bazaar and her "...own fashion photography is renowned for its elegance..." Her book comes out this fall!
through the looking glass mirror
there is something hauntingly beautiful about this picture. it's as if she is trying to pry past the seeming perfection of her glamorous life, beneath the glossy exterior. is this reality? has she chosen this for herself or are we all just actors on a stage fulfilling our ascribed roles?
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