Ilse Bing

warm-toned, initialed and dated by the photographer in ink on the image, her 'Ilse Bing, Paris, 1932' stamp on the reverse, matted, 1932

Other prints of this image:

Nancy C. Barrett, Ilse Bing: Three Decades of Photography (New Orleans Museum of Art, 1985, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 29

Françoise Reynaud, Nancy C. Barrett, and Emmanuel Sougez, Ilse Bing: Paris 1931-1952 (Paris-Musées, 1987, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 27

Larisa Dryansky and Edwynn Houk, Ilse Bing: Photography Through the Looking Glass (New York, 2006), p. 111

Constance Sullivan and Eugenia Parry Janis, Women Photographers (New York, 1990), pl. 59

This fine, early, warm-toned print, on matte-surface paper, is in generally very good condition. The corners are bumped, and there is minor wear at the edges, including two tiny nicks near the upper left corner and one at the lower right edge. There is a 1 1/2-inch sharp handling crease that does not appear to break the emulsion near the upper left corner. In raking light, a 2 3/4-inch soft handling crease is visible in the upper left quadrant, as well as a shiny, transparent patch of what appears to be glass offsetting at the upper right corner. On the reverse, there is soiling and thin strips of brown paper-tape remnants at each edge.
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