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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: Collotype
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Angled view of steel cables running over a platform at a train station. A train engine pulling a single gondola car can be seen pulling out of the station in the foreground, and several more trains can be seen waiting at platforms in the background.

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