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Ilse Bing Biography
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1899 |
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Born in Frankfurt to affluent bourgeois family.
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1920 |
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Enrolls in the University of Frankfurt to study mathematics and physics but soon changes to art history eventually pursuing a doctoral degree.
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1928 |
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To illustrate her dissertation on an architect, she takes up photography and begins using a 9x12c, Voigtlander plate camera. She eventually abandons her dissertation to pursue a career as photographer.
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1929 |
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Purchases a Leica camera enjoying the freedom it provides
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1929 - 1930 |
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Her photographs are reproduced in photo-essays for Frankfurter Illustriete’s weekly supplement Das Illustriete Blatt.
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1930 |
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Moves to Paris in the Fall.
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1932 |
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New York gallerist Julien Levy includes Bing’s work in his seminal exhibition
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1934 |
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Experiments with solarization (which she discovered independently of Man Ray) to create a dream-like night-time atmosphere of statuaries, lights, and water.
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1936 |
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At the invitation of Carmel Snow she visits the US where she meets Alfred Stieglitz. This same year she has solo exhibitions at Galerie Chasseurs d’Images, Paris and Musée des Arts Décoratifs
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1937 |
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Marries pianist and musicologist Konrad Wolff. Her photographs are included in New York’s Museum of Modern Art’s “History of Photography” exhibition.
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1930 - 1939 |
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Her portraits, fashion and architectural studies are published in VU, Harper’s Bazaar, Le Monde, L’Illustration, Illustré, and Regards. Her work is included in the Groupe Annuel des Photographes at La Pleiade in 1931, 1932, 1933, and 1938 alongside that of Germaine Krull, André Kertesz, Florence Henri, Emmanuel Sougez, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Despite this she does not communicate or work closely with other photographers.
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1940 |
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She and her husband are interned in Paris as enemy aliens and in 1941 they immigrate to New York.
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1947 |
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Starts using electronic flash and larger format Rollei camera.
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1957 |
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Begins working exclusively in color until stopping completely in 1959.
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1959 |
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Quits photography and devotes herself to poetry which she composes in English, French, and German. Makes collages and drawings which incorporate photographic elements
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2007
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“Paris in Transition: Photographs from the National Gallery”, National Gallery, Washington, DC - USA
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2005
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“Town and Country: Modern Life in America” Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA- USA
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2004 - 2005
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“Ilse Bing: Queen of Leica” Victoria & Albert Museum, London- UK (solo)
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2004
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“French Photography of the1930s and 1940s”, Zabriskie Gallery, NY – USA
“My America: Art from the Jewish Museum Collection, 1900- 1955” Jewish Museum, New York, NY – USA. Traveled: Memorial Art Museum, Rochester University, Rochester, NY- USA
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1999
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“Insight: Women’s Photographs From the Collection of the George Eastman House”, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, NY - USA
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1998
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“ilse Bing”, Edwynn Houk, New York, NY – USA (solo)
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1996
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“History of Women Photographers” New York Public Library, NY – USA
“Ilse Bing-Fotografien 1929-1956” Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen- Germany (solo)
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1994
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“Ilse Bing: Moulin Rouge, Paris, 1931”, Houk Friedman, NY _ USA (solo)
“Ilse Bing: Vintage Photographs”, Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
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1992
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“Ilse Bing: Frankfurt, Paris, New York”, Houk Friedman, NY – USA (solo)
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1989
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“The New Vision: Photography Between the World Wars, Ford Motor Company Collection”, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY - USA
“Ilse Bing: Germany, Paris, New York”, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago, IL- USA (solo)
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| Literature |
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Ilse Bing: Through the Looking Glass. Larisa Dryansky. Photographs edited by Edwynn Houk: Abrams, New York, 2006
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Photographers Encyclopedia International, 1839 to the present, A-K. Michele and Michel Auer. Editions Camera Obscura: Hermance, Switzerland, 1985
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Ilse Bing: Three Decades of Photography. Nancy C. Barrett. New Orleans Museum of Art. 1985
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Ilse Bing: Vision of a Century. Edwynn Houk Gallery: New York, NY, 1998
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Ilse Bing: Paris 1931-1952. Françoise Reynaud, Bernard de Montgolfier. 1987. Paris Musées, Muse Carnalvalet.
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