The Art Blart archive has been going since November This is the first time I have posted on the avant-garde artist Isle Bing and her documentary humanism.
Manipulation, solarisation, enlargement of fragments and cropping in the darkroom enhance the original negative. They were fascinated by architectural elements and structures as well as urban hustle and bustle.
Her way of working repeatedly explores the tracing of symmetry and rhythm in the experience of everyday situations. She sought contrasts and original juxtapositions that transformed the banal reality of daily life into a new idea. She was also amongst the first to use solarisation, electronic flash and night photography, and established her own distinctive photographic style adoring romanticism, symbolism and dream imagery of surrealism.
We photographed into the light β even photographed the light, used distorted perspective, and showed movement as a blur. What we photographed was new, too β torn paper, dead leaves, puddles in the streetβpeople thought it was garbage! But going against the rules opened the doors to new possibilities. Many more works can be viewed on the MoMA website. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image.
Having discovered her true vocation while preparing the illustrations for her academic thesis, in she abandoned her university studies in order to focus entirely on photography. The medium would be her chosen form of expression for the following thirty years of her fascinating life and career.
