Christa on bathtub

Creator

American Photographer · 1899–1998

Trained in music and art, Ilse Bing became interested in photography while photographing architecture for her doctoral dissertation. She photographed for a local newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, and worked as a photojournalist before moving to Paris to pursue photography as an art form. Her move was inspired by a Frankfurt exhibition of Paris-based Florence Henri's photographs. Bing worked exclusi