Ilse Bing (American/German, 1899–1998)

LOT ID: 78445

Eiffel Tower, 1934

Silver Print, gelatin silver print

10.25 х 8.85 in. cm.

Signed, in white ink, lower left recto

Lot description

Image size is 10.25 x 8.85 inches (26 x 22.2 cm). Frame size is 19.5 x 15 inches (49.5 x 38.1 cm).

lse Bing was born in 1899 in Frankfurt, Germany. She studied art history and mathematics at the universities of Frankfurt and Vienna in the late 1920s. In order to finish her dissertation, she bought a Leica camera and taught herself photography.

By 1930 she was living in Paris and working as a freelance photographer. Along with her assignments, she was also exhibiting her work in important shows and galleries. With the threat of fascism looming, Bing fled to America where she had to start over. She found work as a photographer doing portraits, fashion studies and picture essays.

Bing was one of the first to rely on a small format camera in the 1930s, and in 1948 she was one of the few using a Rolleiflex 2 1/4-inch negative. She was among the first to use electronic flash, solarize her negatives and photograph extensively at night. In 1957 she stopped doing black and white photography and developed and printed her own color work. Then in 1959 she abandoned photography all together and concentrated on painting, poetry and collages.

In 1976 she published Numbers in Images and was rediscovered as a photographer by the Museum of Modern Art of New York. In 1982 she published Women from Childhood to Old Age. Her work is in such collections as the San Francisco Museum of Fine Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Cornell University's Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art and the Chicago Art Institute, among others. She died in 1998.

Literature and Catalogue Raisoneé
Literature and Catalogue Raisoneé
Publication:

Ilse Bing. Photography Through the Looking Glass / Text by Larisa Dryansky / Photographs edited by Edwynn Houk / Photographs by Ilse Bing. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2006. Bing, Ilse. Fotografien 1929-1956 : Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, 13. April-9. Juni 1996 / Ilse Bing ; [Ausstellung und Katalog, Hilary Schmalbach]. Aachen : Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, c1996. Bing, Ilse. Ilse Bing: Paris 1931-1952 / Francoise Reynaud / Nancy Barrett / Emmanuel Sougez / Ilse Bing. Paris : MNAM, 1987. Bing, Ilse. Femmes, de l’enfance à la vieillesse, 1929-1955 / Ilse Bing ; préface de Gisèle Freund. Paris : Des femmes, c1982. Bing, Ilse. Numbers in images : illuminations of numerical meanings / by Ilse Bing. New York : Ilkon Press, 1976. Bing, Ilse. Words as visions; logograms. Worte als Visionen. Mots comme visions. New York, Drigh-Graph, inc. [1974].
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