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Ilse Bing was one of the leading European photographers of the interwar period. She was born into a comfortable Jewish family in Frankfurt, Germany, in As a child her education was rich in music and art.

Like many photographers of the s, Ilse Bing was self-taught.

In she began studying mathematics and physics at the University of Frankfurt, but soon changed to study the history of art. In she continued her studies with a doctorate on the Neo-Classical German architect Friedrich Gilly — Learning photography Bing's introduction to photography was triggered by a practical need to illustrate her doctoral thesis.

She bought a Voigtlander camera in and began to teach herself photography. The following year she bought a Leica, the new and revolutionary 35mm hand-held camera that enabled photographers to capture fast-moving events. As well as enabling her to photograph buildings for her thesis, Bing's newfound skill with the camera earned her an extra living as a photojournalist for a German illustrated magazine supplement, Das Illustriete Blatt.

During these early days of her career, Bing was also commissioned by the Dutch modernist architect Mart Stam, who taught at the Bauhaus school of design, to visually record all of his housing projects in Frankfurt. The resulting photographs were characterised by dizzy angles, flat planes and strong shadows, which were characteristic of an emerging modernist language of art and design, pioneered by both the new architecture and the 'New Photography' movement, of which Bing was beginning to be a part.

Ilse Bing, also known as the "Queen of the Leica," was a German-born photographer renowned for her pioneering work in street photography and avant-garde.

Through Stam, Bing was also introduced to Frankfurt's avant-garde artistic circles. A Photographer's life in Paris Having found some commercial success with photography, and with her artistic horizons expanding, Bing gave up her thesis in the summer of and, in , decided to move to Paris to concentrate on photography. Etsablishing herself in Paris as a freelance photographer, she applied elements of the photographic style she had experimented with in Frankfurt to commercial work, including photojournalism, architectural and theatrical photography, advertising, fashion and portraiture.

For the first couple of years in the city, she published her work regularly with German newspapers and Das Illustriete Blat.