Self-Portrait with Leica

1931, printed c. 1988

Ilse Bing

Artist, American, born Germany, 1899 - 1998

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ilse Bing Wolff

  • Dimensions

    image: 26.7 x 29.7 cm (10 1/2 x 11 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 28 x 35.3 cm (11 x 13 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.147.9

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The Estate of Ilse Bing Wolff, New York, NY; gift to NGA, 2001.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 30–December 31, 2012

Bibliography

1996

  • Ilse Bing: Fotografien, 1929 - 1956. Exh. cat. Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen. Aachen, Germany, 1996, pl. 4.

1998

  • Ilse Bing: Vision of a Century. Exh. cat. Edwynn Houk Gallery. New York, 1998, cover.

Inscriptions

upper left in negative: ILSE BING / 1931; center verso in graphite: ILSE / BING / 1931; lower center verso in graphite: Self with Leica

Wikidata ID

Q64155175

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