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Paris Windows with Flags, Bastille Day

1933

Ilse Bing

(American, 1899–1998)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 22.3 x 28.2 cm (8 3/4 x 11 1/8 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Credit Line
The A. W. Ellenberger, Sr., Endowment Fund 1990.87
Copyright
© Estate of Ilse Bing
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

Bastille Day, celebrated on July 14, is a French national holiday that commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison, the turning point of the French Revolution of 1789.

Description

Ilse Bing’s preference for tightly organized geometric compositions is taken to an extreme in this elegant essay on diagonals. Because she was looking up and from the side, what should have been a rectangular grid of pillars and window ledges contains not a single horizontal or vertical line.
Black-and-white photograph taken looking up and to the side to capture rows of dark, square windows angled diagonally across the photo. Out of each of these windows hangs a flag with three vertical stripes, the middle stripe white, that ripple in a wind.

Paris Windows with Flags, Bastille Day

1933

Ilse Bing

(American, 1899–1998)
America

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