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Eiffelturm (Eiffel Tower)
Creator
Else ThalemannGerman Photographer · 1901–1984
All works by this person →Else Thalemann worked as a photojournalist in Berlin in the 1930s. She worked as Ernst Fuhrmann's assistant at the Folkwang Auriga-Archiv in Essen. Little else is known about her life and work, due in part to the fact that much of her published work was credited to others. Her output ranged from formal studies to political photo-essays. Thalemann visited Paris in the 1920s, where she photographed
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- about 1930
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- German
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- fea347e3-bea8-405d-8082-4c8c32452398
From the Getty Museum record
Else Thalemann, who tackled Gustave Eiffel's 1889 tower from many angles, here seems to associate it with the male establishment, which is, as usual, wearing a bowler hat (or as it is called in the United States, a derby). The silhouetted "bowlered" heads pay homage to another symbol of modernism, the Eiffel Tower, and echo a recent analysis of the famous structure: The cheerless leitmotif of an industrial society composed of a colorless, faceless middle-class herd massed beneath infinite numbers of identical black mass-produced hats, geometric and perfect, like so many machine-tooled interchangeable parts.
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