Moving Railway
Photograph
1929 (made), after 1929 (printed)
1929 (made), after 1929 (printed)
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| 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. She taught herself photography to illustrate her own writing on the German Neo-classical architect Friedrich Gilly. In 1929 she bought herself a Leica camera and turned her attention to the new architecture being built around her home town of Frankfurt. The Dutch Modernist architect Mart Stam commissioned her to record several of his ambitious and radical building projects. Dizzy angles, flat plains and strong shadows were all part of a contemporary language of art and design pioneered by both the ‘New Photography’ and the new architecture. In 1930 Bing moved to Paris to concentrate on photography.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Moving Railway (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Gelatin-silver print |
| Brief description | 'Moving railway', photograph by Ilse Bing, 1929, gelatin-silver print, printed 1991 |
| Physical description | Black and white photograph of close-up of railway buffers |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'Ilse Bing 1929 [1991] moving railway' (pencil on reverse in Bing's hand) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Ilse Bing Wolff |
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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. She taught herself photography to illustrate her own writing on the German Neo-classical architect Friedrich Gilly. In 1929 she bought herself a Leica camera and turned her attention to the new architecture being built around her home town of Frankfurt. The Dutch Modernist architect Mart Stam commissioned her to record several of his ambitious and radical building projects. Dizzy angles, flat plains and strong shadows were all part of a contemporary language of art and design pioneered by both the ‘New Photography’ and the new architecture. In 1930 Bing moved to Paris to concentrate on photography. |
| Bibliographic reference | Kennedy, Ian & Treuherz, Julian The Railway: Art in the Age of Steam, New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2008 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.3035-2004 |
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| Record created | August 4, 2004 |
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