Black-and-white photograph of a cityscape. The left half of the photograph shows the roofs of residential buildings with several skyscrapers in the background. The foreground shows parts of an elevated subway station covered with advertising billboards. The right-hand third of the image shows a scale with a glass cover in which the reflection of a woman with a camera is visible. There is a handwritten note in the bottom right corner: Ilse Bing 1934.