Journal article
From Material to Infrastructure: Germaine Krull's Métal
October, Vol.173(173), pp.118-142
09/01/2020
DOI: 10.1162/octo_a_00405
Abstract
This article reexamines Germaine Krull's seminal 1928 photo book Métal, tracing the implications of the speculative analogy drawn by the project between metal and photography. Following this analogy through nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century architectural discourse, it newly situates the photographer's investigation against Sigfried Giedion's contemporaneous theorizations of iron construction and modern photography. Rather than critiquing or celebrating industry, Krull focuses on metal as it manifests the peculiar and fraught experience of living amid large-scale technical systems. In a singular way,
mobilizes its driving analogy to invoke—and, moreover, to theorize photographically—the infrastructures organizing Western European modernity.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- From Material to Infrastructure: Germaine Krull's Métal
- Creators
- Max Boersma - Institute of Art History
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- October, Vol.173(173), pp.118-142
- DOI
- 10.1162/octo_a_00405
- ISSN
- 0162-2870
- eISSN
- 1536-013X
- Publisher
- MIT Press; CAMBRIDGE
- Number of pages
- 25
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2020
- Academic Unit
- School of Art, Art History, and Design
- Record Identifier
- 9985167563702771
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