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'Photography is a youthful art' Bing remarked, 'As I got older, I was at a greater remove which manifested itself at a greater optical remove'. The effect of war and the atom bomb also led to Bing capturing more impersonal, distanced perspectives of the city.\r\n\r\nBing had been commissioned to take photographs of the Eiffel Tower for <i>Monde illustré</i> in 1931. 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