Paris, Moulin Rouge, French can-can dancer #2
Photograph
1931 (photographed)
1931 (photographed)
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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.
This was one of a series of photographs commissioned by the Hungarian journalist Heinrich Guttman to accompany an article on the Moulin Rouge waxworks museum. Echoing the impressionistic paintings of the late nineteenth century in topic and style, and Pictorialism in photography, Bing uses photography to achieve a painterly quality. Bing uses a long exposure and radically blurs the image to evoke the dancers’ rapid movements and the exciting flamboyancy of night-time Paris.
This was one of a series of photographs commissioned by the Hungarian journalist Heinrich Guttman to accompany an article on the Moulin Rouge waxworks museum. Echoing the impressionistic paintings of the late nineteenth century in topic and style, and Pictorialism in photography, Bing uses photography to achieve a painterly quality. Bing uses a long exposure and radically blurs the image to evoke the dancers’ rapid movements and the exciting flamboyancy of night-time Paris.
Object details
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| Title | Paris, Moulin Rouge, French can-can dancer #2 (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Gelatin-silver print |
| Brief description | Paris, Moulin Rouge, French can-can dancer # 2, photograph by Ilse Bing, 1931, gelatin-silver print |
| Physical description | A black and white photograph of three cancan dancers on a stage |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Ilse Bing Wolff |
| Production | Probably printed 1980s |
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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. This was one of a series of photographs commissioned by the Hungarian journalist Heinrich Guttman to accompany an article on the Moulin Rouge waxworks museum. Echoing the impressionistic paintings of the late nineteenth century in topic and style, and Pictorialism in photography, Bing uses photography to achieve a painterly quality. Bing uses a long exposure and radically blurs the image to evoke the dancers’ rapid movements and the exciting flamboyancy of night-time Paris. |
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| Accession number | E.3064-2004 |
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| Record created | October 24, 2005 |
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