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Introduce briefly
Ilse Bing was a German avant-garde and commercial photographer who produced pioneering monochrome images during the inter-war era. She was born on March 23, 1899, in Frankfurt, Germany, to a wealthy Jewish family [1].
Biography:
- Ilse Bing began her photography journey at the age of 14 when she received a Kodak box camera and took her first self-portrait [1].
- She initially studied mathematics and physics at Frankfurt University but later switched to art history and the history of architecture [1].
- Bing developed a lifelong interest in photography during her studies and started working in photojournalism after finishing her studies in 1929 [1].
- In 1930, she moved to Paris, where she became part of the avant-garde and surrealist scene and gained rapid success as a photographer [1].
- Bing's work was published in magazines such as Le Monde Illustre, Harper's Bazaar, and Vogue [1].
- During World War II, Bing and her husband, who were both Jews, were expelled from Paris and interned in separate camps in the South of France [1].
- After their release, they managed to reach Marseille and waited nine months for their visa to enter the USA [1].
- In 1941, Bing and her husband emigrated to New York, where she had to re-establish her reputation as a photographer [1].
- Bing's style changed in New York, reflecting the harshness and isolation she experienced during the war-related events of the 1940s [1].
- She continued her photography career, focusing on advertising and portrait photography, but eventually decided to give up photography in 1959 [1].
- In the last few decades of her life, Bing explored other artistic mediums such as poetry, drawings, and collages [1].
- Ilse Bing passed away on March 10, 1998, in New York, shortly before her ninety-ninth birthday [1].
Artistic Practice and Subjects:
- Bing had a unique and individual point of view in her photography, whether capturing portraits or architectural photos [2].
- She often enlarged fragments of 35mm film to create interesting compositions [2].
- Bing was influenced by the formalist techniques of modernist photography and was associated with figures from the Bauhaus movement [2].
- Her work often focused on banal details of urban living, finding beauty in everyday objects and scenes [2].
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