Lamp Post, rue de la Chaise, Paris
Bing moved to Paris in 1930 and soon became known as the “Queen of the Leica” for her expertise at exploiting the hand-held 35mm camera’s ability to capture and transmit action. Here she responds to the odd, spectral beauty of the light emitted by a common gas lamp. In 1828 Paris became one of the first European cities to adopt gas street lighting, resurrecting its nickname “La Vielle-Lumière,” or “City of Light.” The sobriquet was first applied to Paris during the Age of Enlightment in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries due to its fame as a center of education and ideas.
Artwork Details
- Title: Lamp Post, rue de la Chaise, Paris
- Artist: Ilse Bing (German, 1899–1998)
- Date: 1934
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: Image: 22.3 x 28.2 cm (8 3/4 x 11 1/8 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Bequest of Ilse Bing Wolff, 1998
- Object Number: 2003.151.11
- Rights and Reproduction: © Estate of Ilse Bing
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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