id: 165570 accession number: 2007.30 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.30 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:05.458000 The Swing, Paris Fair, 1933. Ilse Bing (American, 1899–1998). Gelatin silver print; image: 28.3 x 22.3 cm (11 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.); mounted: 41.9 x 34.9 cm (16 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2007.30 © Estate of Ilse Bing title: The Swing, Paris Fair title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1933 creation date earliest: 1933 creation date latest: 1933 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: © Estate of Ilse Bing --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1900-1950 type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Ilse Bing (American, 1899–1998) - artist 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. --- measurements: Image: 28.3 x 22.3 cm (11 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.); Mounted: 41.9 x 34.9 cm (16 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Inscribed in fine opaque material on surface of print: "Ilse Bing/1933" Written in pencil on verso: "Ilse/Bing/Paris" Written in pencil on mount: "Paris Faire" translation: remark: inscription: Black stamp on recto of mount: "ILSE BING/PARIS" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy opening date: 2004-09-14T04:00:00 Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy. Palmer Museum of Art (September 14-December 5, 2004); McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, MA (January 16-March 27, 2005); Crocker Art Museum, Sacaramento, CA (July 9-September 11, 2005); Portland Museum of Art (January 1-March 19, 2006). title: Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography opening date: 2014-10-19T00:00:00 Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015). title: Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica opening date: 2020-03-07T05:00:00 Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 7-October 11, 2020). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Estate of the photographer, New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: (Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY) date: footnotes: citations: Paul Hertzmann, California date: 1999 footnotes: citations: David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY date: 2007 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. page number: cat. no. 119, p. 167 url: Schaffner, Ingrid, Julien Levy, and Colin Westerbeck. Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy. Pasadena, Calif: Curatorial Assistance, Inc, 2004. page number: p. 83 url: --- IMAGES