[Rue de Valois, Paris]

1932

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

Ilse Bing trained as an art historian in Germany and learned photography in 1928 to make illustrations for her dissertation on neoclassical architecture. In 1930 she moved to Paris, supporting herself as a freelance photographer for French and German newspapers and fashion magazines. Known in the early 1930s as the "Queen of the Leica" due to her mastery of the handheld 35 mm camera, Bing found the old cobblestone streets of Paris a rich subject to explore, often from eccentric perspectives as seen here. She moved to New York in 1941 after the German occupation of Paris and remained here until her death at age ninety-eight.

Artwork Details

Overview

Exhibition History

Title: [Rue de Valois, Paris]
Artist: Ilse Bing (German, 1899–1998)
Date: 1932
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 11 1/8 × 8 3/4 in. (28.3 × 22.2 cm)
Framed: 23 × 20 in. (58.4 × 50.8 cm)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection
Curatorial Department: Photographs