Shadow Self-Portrait, Washington, D.C.

Ilse Bing · 1953

Before you is Shadow Self-Portrait, Washington, D.C. — a photograph by the American artist Ilse Bing, nineteen fifty-three. It's gelatin silver print, about 22 by 20 centimeters.

Medium Gelatin silver print · Dimensions 8 5/8 × 7 7/8" (21.9 × 20 cm) · Credit Bequest of Ilse Bing Wolff

Hanging beside it in Gallery 409: Hand, Indonesian Dancer, Java, Margaret French, Fire Island

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: African Sculpture, Torso, Bird-Head (Oiseau-tête), Tiari, Woman at the Piano, Paul Cadmus

More by Ilse Bing here: Moulin Rouge, Moulin Rouge, Moulin Rouge