Fountain, Rond-Point des Champs-Elysées, Paris, 1934

‘In dramatic photographs of fountains and statuary at night, Bing used solarization to confer a dream-like atmosphere in which movements appear phantasmic, outlined with a mysterious aura of black line… jets of water become explosions of light, brilliant in a monotonous grey plan, and surrounded by a parabola of floating light' (Nancy Barrett, Ilse Bing: Three Decades, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1985, p. 25).