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Reichenau

1929

Ilse Bing

(American, 1899–1998)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 8.8 x 14.3 cm (3 7/16 x 5 5/8 in.); Mounted: 24.9 x 34.9 cm (9 13/16 x 13 3/4 in.); Paper: 8.8 x 14.3 cm (3 7/16 x 5 5/8 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2011.230
Copyright
© Estate of Ilse Bing
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Reichenau and Überlingen are towns on the German side of Lake Constance. Ilse Bing was writing a doctoral dissertation on an 18th-century architect and began to take photography seriously in order to provide illustrations for it. She shot these pictures and the one on the left during a fateful departmental outing. On that trip, Bing saw for the first time a painting by Vincent van Gogh and instantly decided to abandon art history and become an artist—but not a painter. “I didn’t choose photography; it chose me,” she said. “It was the trend of the time. . . . And the camera, that was, in a way, the beginning of the mechanical device penetrating into the field of art.”

Reichenau

1929

Ilse Bing

(American, 1899–1998)
America

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