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This card was addressed to Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry. This card together with other Ryosuke Cohen's Brain Cells and cards are stored in a large green & black folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card was addressed to Epistolary Studio Farm. This card together with other Ryosuke Cohen's Brain Cells and cards are stored in a large green & black folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a copy of the original image made by altering a postcard with overlaid letraset numbers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Ilsa Bing was a famous German photographer in the 1920's. Bing's fame spread to New York by 1932 when the art dealer Julien Levy started to collect her work. Bing was included in Levy's exhibition "Modern European Photography: Twenty Photographers", in 1932. She was first invited to New York in 1936 by the author Hendrik Willem van Loon. Following her return to Paris, examples of Bing's work were selected by Beaumont Newhall for the landmark 1937 photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Bing and her husband were sent to internment camps in France in 1939. When she was released in 1940 she sailed for the United States, and settled in New York. For many years, like a number of European refugee artists, Bing's European fame did not follow her to post-war New York. Only in 1977 did her rediscovery begin. The Art Institute of Chicago presented her work in the landmark show "Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection", and gradually a steady stream of exhibitions,...