The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 19, 2025
Hats (Solarized), Paris
1934, printed 1988
(American, 1899–1998)
Image: 33.9 x 25.3 cm (13 3/8 x 9 15/16 in.); Paper: 35.4 x 27.9 cm (13 15/16 x 11 in.)
© Estate of Ilse Bing
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
Ilse Bing photographed designer accessories for fashion magazines but stumbled across these humble hats in a shop window.Description
In 1934 Bing experimented with solarization, often employing it for night views of Paris to impart what she described as “a surrealistic atmosphere.” Her use of it yielded dreamlike, supernatural scenes. 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.- Estate of the ArtistMichael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NYDecember 7, 2020The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-October 11, 2020).
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