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The photograph ‘Salut de Schiaparelli’ (Lily Perfume) was one of  Ilse Bing’s (1899-1998) fashion assignments for the designer label Schiaparelli. Elsa Schiaparelli was a very popular designer in the 1930s who had close ties to the Parisian artistic community. In the early 1930s Bing had begun to take commissions for fashion photography and was published in magazines such as <b>Paris Vogue</b>, <b>Adam</b> and <b>Marchal</b>. This photograph was later published by the photographer and critic Emmanuel Sougez as part of an article and portfolio of Bing’s work in <b>L’Art Vivant</b> in 1934. \r\n\r\nBing experimented with solarisation from 1934 at the same time as Man Ray (1890-1976) and Lee Miller (1907-1977), although she claimed that she discovered the technique independently of them. Solarisation happens when negatives are exposed to light in the darkroom during developing and printing, producing partly reversed images. 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