Rue Rotme, Seen Through an Arcade from the Odean, 1952
Artist:
Ilse Bing
(German, 1899 - 1998)
Culture: German
Date: 1952, printed later
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Ernest Pomerantz and Marie Brenner
Object number: 2012.23.26
Signed: Signed Verso
Copyright: © Estate of Ilse Bing
Label Text
Ilse Bing was a leader among the artists who made Paris the center of modern photography in the 1930s. While attaining commercial success with the burgeoning German and French illustrated magazine industry, she was also known for a distinctive personal style that embodied the formalist techniques of modern photography—unusual angles, high and low vantage points, the rendering of everyday objects as abstract geometries—and combined them with Surrealism’s romanticism, symbolism, and dream imagery and the spontaneity of urban life. Known as the “Queen of the Leica,” Bing mastered the small Leica camera and innovative darkroom techniques. She photographed the spare geometries of daily Parisian life and nighttime Paris to produce studies of poetic subtleties of light and movement.
(Suzanne Weaver, 2019)
(Suzanne Weaver, 2019)
Not on view
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