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Ilse Bing

Self-Portrait with Leica, 1931, printed c. 1988

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Medium

gelatin silver print

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ilse Bing Wolff

Accession Number

2001.147.9

Artists / Makers

Ilse Bing (artist) American, born Germany, 1899 - 1998

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bing, Ilse

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.

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