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Eiffel Tower, Métal

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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: about 1927
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Culture: French
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

After its completion in 1889, the 1,064-foot Eiffel Tower was unpopular with the public but much celebrated by European artists as the symbol of modernity in France. Germaine Krull, a freelance photographer based in France, included this view of the tower's inner fabric in her 1927-1928 portfolio entitled *Métal,* a group of sixty-four photogravures celebrating the beauty and utility of machines. This dark view, looking up into the elevator tracks, demonstrates Krull's interest in the tower as a working mechanism.

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