Born in Frankfurt on March 23, 1899, Bing first studied Mathematics and Physics, and then changed to History of Art. She purchased her first camera, a 9 x 12 Voigtländer plate camera, for the purpose of her dissertation. In 1929, she broke off her academic career, purchased a Leica and published her first reportages. She moved to Paris in 1930 and, in 1937, married the pianist Konrad Wolff. Bing was interned in Gurs in 1940. In 1941 she emigrated, through Marseille, to New York City. She gave up photography in 1959. Bing passed away in New York on March 10, 1998.
