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Variant of "Do American Girls Like Freedom?"

Paul Himmel American
1947
Not on view
Never exclusively fashion-focused, Junior Bazaar aimed to edify. Stories about Merce Cunningham and Albert Camus kept company with style coverage, encouraging girls to be as well read as they were dressed. To illustrate Simone de Beauvoir’s essay—a skeptical take on the sheltered American college experience—Bassman montaged flags (photographed by Paul Himmel) with stock glamour shots. In print, she swapped the serene profile seen here with a more optimistic young face, as if to underscore the title’s irony.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Variant of "Do American Girls Like Freedom?"
  • Artist: Lillian Bassman (American, Brooklyn, New York 1917–2012 New York)
  • Artist: Paul Himmel (American, 1914–2009)
  • Date: 1947
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print with color film transparency
  • Dimensions: 13 1/8 × 10 3/8 in. (33.3 × 26.4 cm)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Gift of Lizzie and Eric Himmel, 2025
  • Object Number: 2025.889.3
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Estate of Lillian Bassman and Paul Himmel
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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