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Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Ed Pollard-2008.
Le Cinema Paramount, Paris
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Ed Pollard-2008.
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Ed Pollard-2008.

Le Cinema Paramount, Paris

Artist Germaine Krull (Dutch, born Germany, 1897 - 1985)
CultureGerman
Dateca. 1930
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 5 7/16 × 3 9/16 in. (13.8 × 9 cm)
Overall, Support: 11 15/16 × 9 9/16 in. (30.3 × 24.3 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase, Horace W. Goldsmith and Art Purchase Funds
Object number95.15.1
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print of the cinema Paramount in Paris, at night.

Exhibition History"Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris," The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, September 10, 2009 - January 3, 2010; International Center of Photography, New York, NY, January 29 - May 9, 2010; the Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, June 10 - October 10, 2010. "Cities of Light: Photographs from the Chrysler Collection," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, February 15 - October 21, 2012.Published ReferencesBrooks Johnson, _Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers on Their Art_ (New York: Aperture Foundation, 2004), 138-139. Theresa Lichtenstein, _Twilight Visions: Surrealism and Paris_, exh. cat., (Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009), 8.