Lot 71 Dα

Vintage gelatin silver print. 22.3 x 15.7 cm. Titled in black ink, photographer's and publisher's ("Mondiale") copyright stamps as well as annotated in blue crayon and pencil in an unknown hand on the verso. - Corners slightly bumped.
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Germain Krull chose a variant of this motif for Métal, her famous publication with photographs of cranes, bridges, docks, machines as well as the Eiffel tower, which she published in Paris in 1928 and which secured her a place amongst the most outstanding European photographers of the decade. (cf. Kim Sichel (ed.), Avantgarde als Abenteuer, Munich 1999, p. 76; Germaine Krull, Métal, Paris 1928, pl. 11)