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,...

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Ilse Bing painted the cover. She died in 1998 and her obituary, printed in the NY Times is held by the Sackner Archive. Over her last decade of life, she was rediscovered as an important photographer of the thirties. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue lists the issue price of Carl Andre et al's, "Xeroxbook," at $25. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poet, an internationally known art photographer, describes her experiences as a hospitalized patient in a poem entitled "Dawn" - 'when the day starts for you, a new day starts...but in the hospital, nothing starts, the grey goes on and on, hold your breath in fear, take your breath -- where is life?' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.