Tag: Ilse Bing

  • Neglected 20th-Century Women Photographers Begin to Get Their Due

    Neglected 20th-Century Women Photographers Begin to Get Their Due

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    Neglected 20th-Century Women Photographers Begin to Get Their Due The exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum aims to move beyond Euro-American historical narrative. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/678130/20th-century-women-photographers-get-their-due/ A famous, bikini-clad model reclines on the crystalline shore of a beach in Jamaica. The corpse of an SS prison guard floats down a river. Three boys play, chasing each…

  • Ilse Bing : The Queen of the Leica

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    https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/ilse-bing-the-queen-of-the-leica-pp/ “I didn’t choose photography; it chose me,” said Ilse Bing (American, born Germany, 1899–1998). Bing was just a snapshooter until forced to hone her photographic skills to produce illustrations for her doctoral dissertation at the University of Frankfurt on an 18th-century architect. Then in 1929, on a university field trip, the 30-year-old art historian…