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"tombstone": "Paris Windows with Flags, Bastille Day, 1933. Ilse Bing (American, 1899\u20131998). Gelatin silver print; image: 22.3 x 28.2 cm (8 3/4 x 11 1/8 in.); matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The A. W. Ellenberger, Sr., Endowment Fund, 1990.87. \u00a9 Estate of Ilse Bing",
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"title": "Paris Windows with Flags, Bastille Day",
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"inscription": "Written in white ink on recto: \"ILSE BING/1933\"; written in pencil on verso: \"ILSE BING/1933\"",
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"title": "Notable Acquisitions",
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"title": "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"title": "Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica",
"description": "Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-October 11, 2020).",
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"description": "CMA, June 7 - September 15, 1991: \"Notable Acquisitions,\" CMA Bulletin, 78 (June 1991), p. 101, repr.",
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"description": "MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): \"The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art\", no. 73, p. 119, repr. p. 96.",
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"did_you_know": "Bastille Day, celebrated on July 14, is a French national holiday that commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison, the turning point of the French Revolution of 1789.",
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"description": "Ilse Bing\u2019s preference for tightly organized geometric compositions is taken to an extreme in this elegant essay on diagonals. Because she was looking up and from the side, what should have been a rectangular grid of pillars and window ledges contains not a single horizontal or vertical line.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
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"citation": "Donley, Gregory M., \"Geometric Means\", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 46 no. 05, May/June 2006",
"page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4-5",
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"biography": "Ilse Bing (American, b. Germany, 1899-1998). Ilse Bing became interested in photography while pursuing a doctoral degree in art history at Frankfurt University. Around 1927-28 she began taking photographs to illustrate her dissertation and in 1930 decided to move to Paris to look for freelance assignments. Using the new 35mm Leica camera, she worked as a fashion, portrait, and architectural photographer, as well as a photojournalist. During her years in Paris she took part in numerous exhibitions, including the Museum of Modern Art's Photography 1839-1937 show in New York. In 1941 Bing and her husband immigrated to the United States, settling in New York City. In New York she began to work on a different scale, using the larger-format Rolleiflex camera as well as electronic flash. By 1957 she was working exclusively in color. Two years later Bing gave up photography to concentrate on painting and poetry.",
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