Portfolio cover

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Portfolio cover

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French Photographer · 1897–1985

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"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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Date: 1928
Medium: Ink on paper and cardboard
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Portfolio cover featuring printed cardboard cover held together with black cloth binding and black cloth side tie. Front cover features the artist's surname printed in large, transparent typeface over an image of the elevator lift mechanism of the Eiffel Tower.

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