Edie Baskin

Early life Baskin was raised in Studio City, Los Angeles, in a Reform Jewish household. She is the daughter of Burt Baskin (1913–1967), co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain, and Shirley Baskin (née Robbins, 1920–2022), sister of Baskin-Robbins co-founder Irv Robbins.

Prior to her career in photography, Baskin worked as a tour guide at Paramount Studios, as well as a fashion model. She appeared in a small role as an unnamed model in Live a Little, Love a Little (1968), a musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley.

She began taking photographs while visiting her brother, Richard Baskin, on the set of Robert Altman's Nashville, where he served as the musical director and produced the film's soundtrack.

She later relocated to New York City, realizing an aspiration she had held since adolescence, drawn by the appeal of the city's bohemian subculture. While in New York, Baskin showed Michaels some of her photographs and asked if she could be part of the show he was creating. Matthews has referred to Baskin as her "hero and mentor." Baskin was nominated for two Emmy Awards in the category of Outstanding Individual Achievement in Graphic Design and Title Sequences: once in 1976 for her work on SNL (while it was still known as NBC's Saturday Night), and in 1982 for her work on Square Pegs.

Baskin's photographs have appeared in such publications as Newsweek, Time, Vogue, New York, The Village Voice, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, as well as album covers, such as Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years, the Simon & Garfunkel single "My Little Town", Cheryl Lynn's In The Night, and the Streets of Fire soundtrack.

Subsequent to her tenure at SNL, Baskin returned to the Los Angeles area. Her photographs were included in Springsteen: Troubadour of the Highway, an exhibition of Bruce Springsteen photos, videos and memorabilia, that toured the US from 2002 to 2004. In 2006 she exhibited Edie Baskin: New Native Americans featuring photographs of contemporary Native Americans.

Personal life Baskin is married to businessman and real estate developer Richard "Skip" Bronson. They live in Beverly Hills, California.

In 2018, Baskin and her husband received the "Visionary Award", presented to them by the Neurosurgery Division at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles for their financial support of the center's Neurovascular Research Program. The centre also named their cerebral blood flow laboratory the Edie Baskin Bronson and Richard Skip Bronson CBF Laboratory.