Germaine Krull: The Modernist Photographer That Time Forgot

Who? In the 1920s Man Ray said to photographer Germaine Krull, “Germaine, you and I are the greatest photographers of our time; I in the old sense, you in the modern one.” Yet despite this early recognition of her work, Krull has not received the critical attention that her associates like Man Ray and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy attracted. Born in 1897, on the border between Germany and the Russian Empire, Krull spent most of her childhood travelling Europe with her…