Poster Henry VIII [close-up version]
Photograph
1934 (photographed), ca. 1934 (printed)
1934 (photographed), ca. 1934 (printed)
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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.In the early 1930s Bing was a prolific photographer, well-known for her modernist, journalistic city scenes.
She photographed run-down streets, street posters and the ongoing degradation of the city for a commission for the photographer and critic Emmanuel Sougez (1889-1972) in Paris in 1934 for the magazine L’Art vivante. Sougez admired her style and treatment of ‘the sad faces of our old streets’, naming her the ‘sensitive and artistic Ilse Bing’. Bing used her Leica camera to take photojournalistic images of everyday scenes, seizing a moment and immortalising it.
She photographed run-down streets, street posters and the ongoing degradation of the city for a commission for the photographer and critic Emmanuel Sougez (1889-1972) in Paris in 1934 for the magazine L’Art vivante. Sougez admired her style and treatment of ‘the sad faces of our old streets’, naming her the ‘sensitive and artistic Ilse Bing’. Bing used her Leica camera to take photojournalistic images of everyday scenes, seizing a moment and immortalising it.
Object details
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| Title | Poster Henry VIII [close-up version] (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Gelatin-silver print |
| Brief description | 'Poster Henry VIII [close-up version]', photograph by Ilse Bing (1899-1998), vintage gelatin-silver print, Paris, 1934 |
| Physical description | Black and white photograph of a worn poster peeling off a wooden fence. Mounted loosely on cream card. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Ilse Bing Wolff |
| Production | vintage print |
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| 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.In the early 1930s Bing was a prolific photographer, well-known for her modernist, journalistic city scenes. She photographed run-down streets, street posters and the ongoing degradation of the city for a commission for the photographer and critic Emmanuel Sougez (1889-1972) in Paris in 1934 for the magazine L’Art vivante. Sougez admired her style and treatment of ‘the sad faces of our old streets’, naming her the ‘sensitive and artistic Ilse Bing’. Bing used her Leica camera to take photojournalistic images of everyday scenes, seizing a moment and immortalising it. |
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| Accession number | E.3043-2004 |
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| Record created | January 10, 2006 |
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