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        "accession_number": "2020.301",
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        "tombstone": "Ilse Bing 1931 and 1986, 1986, printed 2020. Abe Frajndlich (American, b.1946). Inkjet print; image: 32 x 38 cm (12 5/8 x 14 15/16 in.); paper: 40.4 x 50.6 cm (15 7/8 x 19 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist, 2020.301. \u00a9 Estate of Ilse Bing",
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        "title": "Ilse Bing 1931 and 1986",
        "creation_date": "1986, printed 2020",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1986,
        "creation_date_latest": 1986,
        "artists_tags": [
            "Jewish artists",
            "May Show",
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        "department": "Photography",
        "collection": "PH - American 1951-Present",
        "type": "Photograph",
        "measurements": "Image: 32 x 38 cm (12 5/8 x 14 15/16 in.); Paper: 40.4 x 50.6 cm (15 7/8 x 19 15/16 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "image": {
                "height": 0.32,
                "height_inch": 12,
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                "width": 0.38,
                "width_inch": 14,
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 Estate of Ilse Bing",
        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "Written in black marker on verso: \"Ilse Bing-Then + Then 1931 and 1986 and 2020 \u00a9 Abe Frajndlich (signed) ~ 2020\"",
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        ],
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        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Abe Frajndlich (the artist) [1946-], Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "2020",
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "December 7, 2020",
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        "did_you_know": "This picture was made in 1931, 1986, and 2012.",
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        "description": "In Ilse Bing\u2019s original 1931 self-portrait, there is a paradox of time: we see a 32-year old Bing in the act of shooting the picture we view. In 1986, Abe Frajndlich had the artist, now 85 years old, pose in a similar set up and recreated her self-portrait, this time in color. In this 2012 composite version, Frajndlich digitally inserted the profile view of Bing from her 1931 self-portrait into his 1986 photograph. Since Bing\u2019s 1931 photograph was a black-and-white image, Frajndlich translated his original from color to match it.",
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        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.301",
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        "creditline": "Gift of the Artist",
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                "description": "Abe Frajndlich (American, b.1946)",
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                "role": "artist",
                "biography": "Abe Frajndlich American, b. Germany, 1946\u2013 Abraham Samuel Frajndlich (born in Frankfurt am Main) translates literary sequences and series into black-and-white and color images. Upon receiving degrees in English literature from Northwestern University (B.A., 1968; M.A., 1970), he studied with Minor White at a live-in workshop (1970-71) and with Nathan Lyons (1974-75). Frajndlich's haunting portraits of an aged White, emaciated and mystical, are perhaps his most powerful images. Since 1970 Frajndlich has worked as a freelance commercial photographer, doing editorial work for several U.S. and European publications, including Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, ArtNews, London Sunday Times, and the New York Times Magazine. He has participated in many one-person and group exhibitions throughout the United States and in Germany, France, and Belgium. His books include Figments (1975), Cleveland Infra/Red (1979), Lives I've Never Lived: A Portrait of Minor White (1983), Masters of Light (1990), and Gone Beyond Gone (1993). Frajndlich lives in New York. A.W.",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "2020-12-07T00:00:00-05:00",
        "sortable_date": 1986,
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        "date_text": "1986, printed 2020",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:54:12.471000"
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