Rue de la Chaise, Paris
1934
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
overall: 20.3 x 28.1 cm (8 x 11 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ilse Bing Wolff
Accession Number
2001.147.38
Art Historical Context
Ilse Bing's *Rue de la Chaise Paris* (1934) captures the elegant geometry of a Parisian street in the heart of the city's 7th arrondissement during the interwar years. as the "Queen of Leica," Bing—a pioneering German-born photographer who settled in Paris in 192—excelled in modernist street photography. This gelatin silver print reflects her signature style: sharp focus, dynamic angles, and a keen eye for urban patterns, light, and shadow, hallmarks of the New Vision movement emphasized the camera's ability to reveal the modern world anew. Printed on gelatin silver paper, a versatile medium ...
About the Artist
Ilse Bing
Ilse Bing, born on March 23, 1899, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, into a prosperous Jewish merchant family, grew up immersed in music and art. The daughter of Louis Bing and Johanna Elli Bing (née Katz), she pursued studies in mathematics and physics at the University of Frankfurt starting in 1920, later shifting to art history and architecture. A semester at Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Institut in...