Champs de Mars
1931; printed 1994
Medium
gelatin silver photograph
Measurements
21.9 × 33.1 cm (image) 27.6 × 35.3 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bowness Family Fund for Photography, 2022
© Ilse Bing Estate
Gallery location
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Ground Level, NGV International
About this work
Taken atop the Eiffel Tower, this image sees Ilse Bing turn her lightweight 35 mm Leica camera downwards, photographing the people and bustling city below. The distance created by this dizzying viewpoint reduces the scene to a pattern of shapes and forms. Images such as these were characteristic of a ‘new way of seeing’ that was adopted by avant-garde photographers during the interwar period.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Inscription
inscribed in negative (in image) l.l.: ILSE BING. / 1931
inscribed in pencil on reverse c.: ILSE BING / 1931
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.c.r.: 94 / Champs de Mars
Accession Number
2022.899
Department
International Photography