id: 322061 accession number: 2018.388 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.388 updated: 2022-01-04 18:10:15.175000 Close-up of Fashion Model's Shoes, 1934. Ilse Bing (American, 1899-1998). Gelatin silver print; image: 28.2 x 20 cm (11 1/8 x 7 7/8 in.); paper: 28.2 x 20 cm (11 1/8 x 7 7/8 in.); mounted: 41.9 x 34.7 cm (16 1/2 x 13 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2018.388 © Estate of Ilse Bing title: Close-up of Fashion Model's Shoes title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1934 creation date earliest: 1934 creation date latest: 1934 current location: creditline: Gift of George Stephanopoulos 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 American and German photographer, born 1899 or 1900, died 1998 --- measurements: Image: 28.2 x 20 cm (11 1/8 x 7 7/8 in.); Paper: 28.2 x 20 cm (11 1/8 x 7 7/8 in.); Mounted: 41.9 x 34.7 cm (16 1/2 x 13 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in black ink in lower right on recto of photograph: "Ilse Bing/1934" translation: remark: inscription: Imprinted in black type on recto of mount: "ILSE BING/PARIS/1934" translation: remark: inscription: Commercially imprinted throughout verso of photograph: "Agfa Brovira" translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso of mount: "IB-FAS-36 #2 8k 0.5 3/13" translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso of mount: "[1206-433-D7]" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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 --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Ilse Bing’s assignment from a Frankfurt newspaper to cover the couture ball in Paris led to commissions from designers and fashion magazines, including French Vogue. In November 1933 she began doing all the Paris accessory shoots for the American magazine Harper’s Bazaar. Although the Leica was associated with candid photography, she used it in the studio to create staged still lifes of shoes, jewelry, handbags, and belts, and occasionally views of shoes on a model’s feet. Accustomed to using available light, Bing had to master artificial lighting. Preferring a natural look, she avoided bright spots and deep shadows in favor of gently modeled highlights that emphasized the objects’ sculptural shapes while revealing their polished surfaces. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES