
Born: 1911-11-06
Assia Granatouroff—known simply as Assia—entered the world on October 6, 1911, in Bogopol, now Pervomaïsk, Ukraine, and left it on May 17, 1982, in Paris’s 15th arrondissement. During the interwar years, she became the quintessential nude model for Paris’s most celebrated photographers, pai...