Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50

Self-Portrait with Leica

Artist Ilse Bing (American (born Germany), 1899 - 1998)

CultureAmerican

Date1931, printed 1994

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 10 1/8 × 11 1/2 in. (25.7 × 29.2 cm)

Signedsigned and dated on the verso

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number2025.74.1

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 228

ProvenanceArtist’s collection; Artist’s Estate gifted to Wichita State; Artist’s Estate acquired by Michael MattisExhibition HistoryNancy C. Barnett, Ilse Bing: Three Decades of Photography, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1985 Larissa Dryansky, Ilse Bing: Photography Through the Looking Glass, New York: Abrams, 2006 Andrea Nelson, The New Woman Behind the Camera, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2020 Dorothee Linemann, Stadt der Fotografinnen, Frankfurt 1844–2024, Historisches Museum, Frankfurt, 2024