Sans Illusion, Paris Flea Market

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Ilse Bing moved from Frankfurt to Paris in 1930 and joined the city’s thriving, trailblazing artistic scene. While there, she became familiar with the experiential techniques employed by surrealist photographers like the American expatriates Man Ray and Lee Miller. In this image, Bing highlights odd, everyday materials through a manipulation of contrast and enlargement. The dismembered doll head and strange composition heightens the picture’s uncanny quality.

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