Salut de Schiaparelli

1934
(American, 1899–1998)
Image: 20.3 x 27.9 cm (8 x 11 in.)
© Estate of Ilse Bing
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Location: not on view

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Salut de Schiaparelli was created to promote a perfume with that name released by Paris designer Elsa Schiaparelli.

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Ilse Bing employed solarization here to evoke an otherworldly, surrealistic feeling. The procedure involves quickly re-exposing a photographic print to light during the development process, before the image is fixed. The result is a partial or total reversal of tone, so areas that are dark become light and vice versa. Bing considered darkroom work a final stage in a photograph’s creation.
Salut de Schiaparelli

Salut de Schiaparelli

1934

Ilse Bing

(American, 1899–1998)
America, 20th century

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