The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 24, 2024

Street Cleaners

Street Cleaners

1947
(American, 1899–1998)
America, 20th century
gelatin silver print
Image: 32.5 x 26.7 cm (12 13/16 x 10 1/2 in.); Paper: 35.2 x 27.7 cm (13 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.); Matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
Gift of David Raymond 2009.477
© Estate of Ilse Bing
Location: not on view

Description

Compared to New York’s skyscrapers, Paris was still a low-rise city. But this "bird’s-eye" view from the top floor of an apartment building provided sufficient height to allow the imagination to turn shadows, patches, and crosswalks into lines in an abstract geometric composition. An art history doctoral student in Frankfurt, Bing learned photography to illustrate her dissertation on architecture. Moving to Paris in 1930, she developed a successful photographic practice combining commercial and fine art photography. By the end of the decade, her photographs had been shown at the Louvre and New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
  • (Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY)
    2009
    David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Schaffner, Ingrid, Julien Levy, and Colin Westerbeck. Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy. Pasadena, Calif: Curatorial Assistance, Inc, 2004. p. 69
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. cat. no. 156, p. 192
  • Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
    Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy. Palmer Museum of Art (September 14-December 5, 2004); McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, MA (January 16-March 27, 2005); Crocker Art Museum, Sacaramento, CA (July 9-September 11, 2005); Portland Museum of Art (January 1-March 19, 2006).
  • {{cite web|title=Street Cleaners|url=false|author=Ilse Bing|year=1947|access-date=24 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2009.477