The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 16, 2024
Gold Lamé Shoes for Harper's Bazaar
1935, printed later
(American, 1899–1998)
Image: 24 x 30.2 cm (9 7/16 x 11 7/8 in.); Paper: 28.1 x 35.3 cm (11 1/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
© Estate of Ilse Bing
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Ilse Bing was the first professional photographer to wholeheartedly adopt the first widely available 35mm still camera.Description
Although the 35mm Leica was associated with candid photography, Bing used it in the studio to create staged still lifes of shoes, jewelry, handbags, and belts. 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 shining surfaces.- Estate of the ArtistMichael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NYDecember 7, 2020The 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: pp. 36-37, fig. 19
- Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 7-October 11, 2020).
- {{cite web|title=Gold Lamé Shoes for Harper's Bazaar|url=false|author=Ilse Bing|year=1935, printed later|access-date=16 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.292