Cleveland Museum of Art

As part of the Virtual Collect + Connect program, Photo LA 2020 presents an online tour of the exhibition ILSA BING—QUEEN OF THE LEICA, followed by a discussion with curators Barbara Tannenbaum and David Travis.

ILSA BING—QUEEN OF THE LEICA

Sunday, June 28.

10:30 am on the West Coast; 1:30 pm East Coast.

Ilsa Bing, from top: Self-Portrait with Mirrors, 1931; New York, the Elevated, and Me, 1936; Three Men on Steps on the Seine, 1931; Schiaparelli, Satin Dress, 1933; Greta Garbo Poster, Paris, 1932; It Was So Windy in the Eiffel Tower, 1941; Dancers, Ballet Errante, 1933; Paris, 1952; Circus Acrobat on Black Ball, New York, 1936; Self-Portrait with Leica, 1986. Images courtesy and © Estate of Ilse Bing.

The exhibition GORDON PARKS—THE NEW TIDE, EARLY WORK 1940–1950G looks at his mid-century work from the time when “images began to proliferate in picture magazines and on television,” providing an “engaging study of the competing purposes and meanings” of his commissions—journalistic, governmental, industrial, and fashion.*

GORDON PARKS—THE NEW TIDE, EARLY WORK 1940–1950*

Through June 9.

Cleveland Museum of Art

11150 East Boulevard, Cleveland.

Gordon Parks, gelatin silver prints, from top: Self-Portrait, 1941; Washington, D.C. Government charwoman, [Ella Watson],1942; Tenement Dwellers, Chicago, 1950; Paris Fashions, 1949; Self-Portrait. Images courtesy and © the Gordon Parks Foundation.

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ILSA BING

GORDON PARKS’ EARLY WORK