Schubi and Me
Artist
Ilse Bing
(American (born Germany), 1899 - 1998)
CultureAmerican | German
Date1948
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 13 1/8 × 10 1/2 in. (33.3 × 26.7 cm)
Overall, Paper: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Overall, Mat: 24 1/8 × 20 in. (61.3 × 50.8 cm)
Overall, Paper: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Overall, Mat: 24 1/8 × 20 in. (61.3 × 50.8 cm)
InscribedSigned upper left corner in black ink: Ilse Bing 1948; Signed on verso, centered in pencil: Ilse Bing 1948 / Schubi and Me
Credit LineGift of the Ilse Bing Estate
Object number2004.13.20
Not on view
Label TextIlse Bing
American/German (1899-1998)
Schubi and Me, 1948
Gelatin-silver print
Gift of the Ilse Bing Estate 2004.13.20
During the 1930s, Ilse Bing worked as a pioneering avant-garde photographer in Paris. Her colleagues included André Kertész and Henri Cartier-Bresson. She worked for magazines such as Vu, Arts et Metiers Graphiques, and Le Monde Illustre, and she did fashion photography for Harper's Bazaar and the couturiere Schiaparelli. In 1936 she visited New York and was offered a job at LIFE magazine. She turned the job down in order to return to Paris to marry. In 1940, the Vichy Government interned her and her husband briefly as enemy aliens. They managed to obtain their freedom and moved to New York where they lived until their deaths. Bing was included in the Museum of Modern Art's (New York) first landmark exhibition of photography in 1937 as well as the Louvre's (Paris) first in 1936.
Edited By: CW
Edited Date: 2007
Approved By: ERL
Approval Date: 2007Exhibition History"The World of Photography," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, June 20, 2007 - May 25, 2008
