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Cheval de Marly, Paris

1934, printed 1988
(American, 1899–1998)
America, 20th century
gelatin silver print
Image: 26.1 x 34 cm (10 1/4 x 13 3/8 in.); Paper: 27.8 x 35.4 cm (10 15/16 x 13 15/16 in.)
Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg 2020.295
© Estate of Ilse Bing
Location: not on view
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Ilse Bing used a technique called solarization to produce dreamlike, supernatural scenes.

Description

Bing employed it for night views of Paris to impart what she described as “a surrealistic atmosphere.” The technique involves briefly re-exposing a partially developed negative or print to light, which caused positive and negative values to reverse in some, but not all, areas of the image. This sculpture, Mercury Mounted on Pegasus, 1702, stands in the Tuileries Garden in the center of Paris.
Cheval de Marly, Paris

Cheval de Marly, Paris

1934, printed 1988

Ilse Bing

(American, 1899–1998)
America, 20th century

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