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Model with Voisin Automobile
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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- about 1925
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Posed in front of a sporty Voisin Lumineuse automobile, this fashion model is the epitome of Paris chic of the 1920s. Wearing ready-made clothes and bobbed hair, the flapper embodied the new range of possibilities open to women between the two world wars, including car ownership. In the 1920s, automobile marketing was targeted at women for the first time. While to some observers this represented convenience and status, to others a woman behind the wheel suggested an independence that was threatening to the domestic sphere. The winged ornament on the Voisin's radiator cap was known as *La Cocotte* (chick), which carried the connotation of a woman of easy virtue.
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