Photographer Lillian Bassman Dies at 94

Art director and self-taught fashion and fine-art photographer Lillian Bassman died on Monday, February 13, 2012.   She was 94.

The New York Times obituary.

Slideshow of her works.

Her photographs have been published in Lillian Bassman (1997) and Lillian Bassman: Women (2009).  A new book, Lillian Bassman: Lingerie, will be published on April 1, 2012.

If you are an artist or photographer, don’t destroy your work or negatives.  Bassman did, and later rediscovered interest in the work that survived.  You don’t have to like your early work.  But keep it.