id: 167886 accession number: 2009.477 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.477 updated: 2020-03-20 09:01:02.191000 Street Cleaners, 1947. Ilse Bing (American, 1899-1998). Gelatin silver print; image: 32.5 x 26.7 cm (12 13/16 x 10 1/2 in.); paper: 35.2 x 27.7 cm (13 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.); matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of David Raymond 2009.477 © Estate of Ilse Bing title: Street Cleaners title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1947 creation date earliest: 1947 creation date latest: 1947 current location: creditline: Gift of David Raymond 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: 32.5 x 26.7 cm (12 13/16 x 10 1/2 in.); Paper: 35.2 x 27.7 cm (13 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.); Matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso of print: "Ilse/Bing/1947" translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil in top left corner of verso of print: [?]"OB" translation: remark: inscription: Written in black ink in lower left margin of recto of print: "ILSE BING" 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 (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Compared to New York’s skyscrapers, Paris was still a low-rise city. But this "bird’s-eye" view from the top floor of an apartment building provided sufficient height to allow the imagination to turn shadows, patches, and crosswalks into lines in an abstract geometric composition. An art history doctoral student in Frankfurt, Bing learned photography to illustrate her dissertation on architecture. Moving to Paris in 1930, she developed a successful photographic practice combining commercial and fine art photography. By the end of the decade, her photographs had been shown at the Louvre and New York’s Museum of Modern Art. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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. 69 url: 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. 156, p. 192 url: --- IMAGES