Ilse Bing

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name = Ilse Bing

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birth_date = 23 March 1899
birth_place = Frankfurt, Germany
death_date = 10 March 1998 (age 98).
death_place = Manhattan, New York City, United States
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religion = Judaism
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Ilse Bing (23 March 1899 – 10 March 1998) was a German avant-garde and commercial photographer who produced pioneering monochrome images during the inter-war era.

Her move from Frankfurt to the burgeoning avant-garde and surrealist scene in Paris in 1930 marked the start of the most notable period of her career. Producing images in the fields of photojournalism, architectural photography, advertising and fashion, her work was published in magazines such as "Le Monde Illustre", "Harper's Bazaar", and "Vogue". Respected for her use daring perspectives and cropping, use of natural light and geometries, she also discovered a type of solarisation for negatives independently of a similar process developed by the artist Man Ray.

Her rapid success as a photographer and her position of being the only professional in Paris to use an advanced Leica camera earned her the title "Queen of the Leica" from the critic and photographer Emmanuel Sougez.

In 1936 her work was included in the first modern photography exhibition held at the Louvre, and in 1937 she travelled to New York where her images were included in the landmark exhibition "Photography 1839–1937" at the Museum of Modern Art.

References

* [http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/5377 Biography of Ilse Bing.] Artfacts.Net Ltd. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
* [http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/past_exhns/bing/index.html Past exhibitions: Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica] . Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
* [http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/photo_focus/bing/index.html Photographers in focus: Ilse Bing.] Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
*Reinhold Misselbeck. Ed. 1996. 20th Century Photography. Museum Ludwig Cologne. Taschen. ISBN 3822858676.
*Margarett Loke. 1998-03-15. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06E7DB1439F936A25750C0A96E958260 Obituaries: Ilse Bing, 98, 1930's Pioneer Of Avant-Garde Photography.] The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-01-24.

External links

* [http://www.artist-info.com/cgi-bin/search/user_search.cgi?action=show_bio&ID=3105 List of exhibitions 1931–1998]
* [http://www.luminous-lint.com/__sw.php?photog/Ilse__Bing/A/ Selection of photographs and information] .