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"tombstone": "Street Cleaners, 1947. Ilse Bing (American, 1899\u20131998). 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. \u00a9 Estate of Ilse Bing",
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"title": "Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy",
"description": "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).",
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"description": "Compared to New York\u2019s skyscrapers, Paris was still a low-rise city. But this \"bird\u2019s-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\u2019s Museum of Modern Art.",
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