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Collection Online as of April 23, 2024

Model's Feet Wearing Two-Toned Shoes

Model's Feet Wearing Two-Toned Shoes

1934
(American, 1899–1998)
America, 20th century
gelatin silver print
Image: 22.2 x 28 cm (8 3/4 x 11 in.); Mounted: 34.7 x 41.8 cm (13 11/16 x 16 7/16 in.); Paper: 22.2 x 28 cm (8 3/4 x 11 in.)
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2014.532
© Estate of Ilse Bing
Location: not on view

Description

Ilse Bing’s assignment from a Frankfurt newspaper to cover the couture ball in Paris led to commissions from designers and fashion magazines, including French Vogue. In November 1933 she began doing all the Paris accessory shoots for the American magazine Harper’s Bazaar. Although the Leica was associated with candid photography, she used it in the studio to create staged still lifes of shoes, jewelry, handbags, and belts, and occasionally views of shoes on a model’s feet. Accustomed to using available light, Bing had to master artificial lighting. Preferring a natural look, she avoided bright spots and deep shadows in favor of gently modeled highlights that emphasized the objects’ sculptural shapes while revealing their polished surfaces.
  • ?-2014
    George Stephanopoulos [1961-], New York, NY
    December 1, 2014
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Lee, Key Jo, and William Griswold. Perceptual Drift: Black Art and an Ethics of Looking. Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022. Mentioned and reproduced:p. 36, fig. 18
  • Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 7-October 11, 2020).
  • {{cite web|title=Model's Feet Wearing Two-Toned Shoes|url=false|author=Ilse Bing|year=1934|access-date=23 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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