Images simultanées : les photographies de mode de Germaine Krull commandées par Sonia Delaunay

Abstract

Between 1924 and 1931, Sonia Delaunay used fashion photographs systematically to file the creations of her «Boutique Simultanée » and publish them in the international press. She called in professional photographers and artist friends passing through Paris. So took place, between 1926 and 1927, a remarkable cooperation between the artist and Germaine Krull, a photographer of German nationality just settled in Paris. Among the two hundred and fifty fashion photographs kept in the Delaunay Fund at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Musée national d’art moderne, coming from the extraordinary Sonia Delaunay Foundation in 1977, about twenty shots are attributed to Germaine Krull. The photographs, published in German modernist magazines, reveal the plastic character of Sonia Delaunay’s creations, as well as taking part in an original way in the history of fashion photographs.