Window View
c. 1952
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 50.5 x 40.6 cm (19 7/8 x 16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ilse Bing Wolff
Accession Number
2001.147.75
Art Historical Context
"Window View," a gelatin silver print created by Ilse Bing around 1952, a quiet yet evocative glimpse through an ordinary window. The title suggests a focus on framing and perspective, inviting viewers to consider how photography transforms everyday scenes into contemplative images. Measuring 50.5 by 40.6 centimeters, the print demonstrates the intimate scale often favored in mid-century photography. Gelatin silver prints were the dominant photographic process of the era, prized for their rich tonal range and ability to render fine detail and subtle gradations of light. Bing, who gifted this ...
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...