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Paris marche aux puces (Paris Flea Market)
Creator
Germaine KrullFrench Photographer · 1897–1985
All works by this person →"You are a mirror which recreates things," Jean Cocteau wrote to Germaine Krull. "With the help of your darkroom you allow a new world to spring into being, a world which encompasses both technical and intellectual dimensions." Krull is best known for her images of Paris in the 1920s--the Eiffel Tower, the Paris Metro, electricity. Modern icons were her subjects. As Man Ray wrote to her, "Germaine
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- 1928
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 1eed0bb8-1ec8-4f3c-b41d-cc36ea14a506
"From the factory to the merchant, from the merchant to the buyer of odds and ends, rise and fall. They seem to finish their life," reads a translation of the caption that appeared with this picture in *Vu* magazine in 1928. Here Germaine Krull successfully recorded the visual confusion of a flea market. Only after careful looking can the viewer's eye begin to distinguish the nature of the mysterious, jumbled objects being offered for sale.
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