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  "path": "/issues/2026-3-7/the-nine-lives-of-lillian-bassman",
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  "textContent": " \n\n##### Colleague to Alexey Brodovitch, friend to Richard Avedon and Irving Penn … an exhibition in New York celebrates the postwar fashion photographer and art director\n\nBy Ruth Peltason\n\nShe was barely five feet tall and wore her hair pulled back in a bun or short ponytail, or a little of both. She tended to wear Keds (usually red), was raised by bohemian immigrant parents in Greenwich Village, and at 24 became an acolyte and, later, a colleague of the mercurial Alexey Brodovitch. She worked under Carmel Snow at _Harper’s Bazaar,_ gave Richard Avedon his first magazine cover when she was art director at _Junior Bazaar_ (they also became close friends), and mixed with fellow up-and-comers such as Irving Penn and George Hoyningen-Huene. One of the most innovative READ ON",
  "title": "The Nine Lives of Lillian Bassman"
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