The exhibition opened on June 5 in Norfolk and remains on view through October 18 with about 40 works by Ilse Bing.
Ilse Bing was a rising photographer in 1930s Paris, moving through the city with a Leica camera and a strong reputation that led her to turn down a job at Life magazine after visiting New York.
Then World War II broke out and France was invaded. Bing returned to New York in 1941 as a Jewish refugee fleeing the Nazis.
“World War II is a real point of rupture,” Mia Laufer, the Chrysler Museum’s Irene Leache curator of European art, said in an interview.
The exhibit, “Ilse Bing Between Paris and New York,” is on view at the Chrysler Museum of Art through October 18.
It features about 40 works, mostly from the museum’s collection, with four loans from a private collection and works by Bing’s contemporaries. It traces the Frankfurt-born photographer’s shifting identities as an expatriate, tourist and refugee.
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Image Credit: Ilse Bing’s Self-Portrait with Leica, 1931. Photo courtesy of the Chrysler Museum of Art