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Paris - Eiffel Tower - branches - lamp

Photograph
1933 (photographed), 1993 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Ilse Bing (1899-1998) was one of several leading women photographers in the inter-war period. Born into a Jewish family in Frankfurt, she initially pursued an academic career before moving to Paris in 1930 to concentrate on photography.

Bing had been commissioned to take photographs of the Eiffel Tower for Monde illustré in 1931 and was interested in the interaction of the metallic structure in a human context. Here she returns to the subject of the Eiffel Tower, positioning it through a modernist filter of steep perspectives and off-centre compositions.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleParis - Eiffel Tower - branches - lamp (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Gelatin-silver print
Brief description
'Paris - Eiffel Tower - branches - lamp', by Ilse Bing (1899-1998), 1933, gelatin-silver print, printed 1993
Physical description
Black and white photograph of the Eiffel Tower viewed from below, with lamp at an angle on left and branches of a tree on right.
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 35.3cm
  • Sheet width: 28cm
  • Image height: 33.9cm
  • Image width: 26.8cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'ILSE/BING/1933/93/PARIS/Eiffel / tower-branches-lamp' (reverse in pencil, written by Bing)
  • 'ILSE BING 1933' (artist's signature, white ink, bottom right of image)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Ilse Bing Wolff
Production
printed later
Place depicted
Summary
Ilse Bing (1899-1998) was one of several leading women photographers in the inter-war period. Born into a Jewish family in Frankfurt, she initially pursued an academic career before moving to Paris in 1930 to concentrate on photography.

Bing had been commissioned to take photographs of the Eiffel Tower for Monde illustré in 1931 and was interested in the interaction of the metallic structure in a human context. Here she returns to the subject of the Eiffel Tower, positioning it through a modernist filter of steep perspectives and off-centre compositions.
Collection
Accession number
E.3062-2004

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Record createdOctober 24, 2005
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