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        "tombstone": "Self-Portrait, 1945. Ilse Bing (American, 1899\u20131998). Gelatin silver print; image: 33.9 x 26.5 cm (13 3/8 x 10 7/16 in.); mounted: 50.7 x 40.5 cm (19 15/16 x 15 15/16 in.); paper: 33.9 x 26.5 cm (13 3/8 x 10 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos, 2012.395. \u00a9 Estate of Ilse Bing",
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        "title": "Self-Portrait",
        "creation_date": "1945",
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        "department": "Photography",
        "collection": "PH - American 1900-1950",
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        "measurements": "Image: 33.9 x 26.5 cm (13 3/8 x 10 7/16 in.); Mounted: 50.7 x 40.5 cm (19 15/16 x 15 15/16 in.); Paper: 33.9 x 26.5 cm (13 3/8 x 10 7/16 in.)",
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 Estate of Ilse Bing",
        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "Written in black marker in upper right corner of recto: \"ILSE BING (signed)/1945\"\r\nWritten in pencil on verso of mount: \"6500 [940-297-E15] IB-SPT-031.2\"\r\nWritten in pencil on verso of mount: \"ILSE/BING (signed)/1945\"\r\n",
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                {
                    "id": 370361,
                    "title": "Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica",
                    "description": "<i>Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-October 11, 2020).",
                    "opening_date": "2020-03-06T05:00:00"
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        "description": "Living in New York provoked a stylistic shift in Ilse Bing\u2019s work. The city\u2019s \u201cclear and differentiating light, which [made her] see things in sharp detail,\u201d inspired brighter and larger prints. Her compositions separated the forms from each other. Bing attributed these changes to a sense of isolation, which is mirrored in these self-portraits. Living in New York, she said, was like being \u201cin a vacuum . . . looking out on the world as if from inside a space capsule.\u201d",
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        "creditline": "Gift of George Stephanopoulos",
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                "description": "Ilse Bing (American, 1899\u20131998)",
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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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                "birth_year": "1899",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "2012-12-03T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1945,
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:53:19.242000"
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