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Germaine Krull

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
Collotype
Department
Photographs
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Two side-by-side images, each depicting elevated views of Antwerp through a clock face on the tower of the Cathedral of Our Lady. The metal numbers and hands of the clock are so close in the foreground that they are rendered slightly out of focus.

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