Location

not on view

Fun Fact

<em>Salut de Schiaparelli</em> was created to promote a perfume with that name released by Paris designer Elsa Schiaparelli.

Description

Ilse Bing employed solarization here to evoke an otherworldly, surrealistic feeling. The procedure involves quickly re-exposing a photographic print to light during the development process, before the image is fixed. The result is a partial or total reversal of tone, so areas that are dark become light and vice versa. Bing considered darkroom work a final stage in a photograph’s creation.

Ilse Bing

American and German photographer, born 1899 or 1900, died 1998

Provenance

Estate of the Artist

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY

c. 2005-2010

Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY

September 3, 2019

the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

"In perspective: art-world news and market updates, exhibitions and events: Leica queen." Art & antiques 43, no. 3 (March 2020): p.24-35. Reproduced: p. 30; Mention: p. 30

Tannenbaum, Barbara. “Acquisitions 2019: Photography.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 60, no. 2 (March/April 2020): 24-26. Reproduced: P. 25; Mentioned: P. 24.

Exhibition history

Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 7-October 11, 2020).