Lesbian Art Herstory: Nudes by German photographer Germaine Krull
Video (2:46): the video about the exhibtion of nude photos by Germaine Krull at Estudio ARTIZAR can only be watched on Youtube.
Description: Vídeo de la exposición de Germaine Krull realizada en Estudio ARTIZAR, incluida en el programa de FOTONOVIEMBRE 2011 de Tenerife.
In the 1920s bisexual Germaine Krull (1897-1985) photographed sensual and sexual encounters between women. She is said to have had love affairs with her models and I assume that her photographs of nudes were made more for her own pleasure than for the gaze of men.
Books by Germaine Krull
Krull, Germaine. Métal. Paris: Librairie des arts décoratifs, 1928. (New facsimile edition published in 2003 by Ann and Jürgen Wilde, Köln.)
Krull, Germaine. 100 x Paris. Berlin-Westend: Verlag der Reihe, 1929.
Bucovich, Mario von. Paris. New York: Random House, 1930. (With photographs by Krull.)
Colette. La Chatte. Paris: B. Grasset, 1930. (With photographs by Krull.)
Krull, Germaine. Études de Nu. Paris: Librairie des Arts Décoratifs, 1930.
Nerval, Gérard de, and Germaine Krull. Le Valois. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1930.
Warnod, André. Visages de Paris. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1930. (With photographs by Krull.)
Krull, Germaine, and Claude Farrère. La Route Paris-Biarritz. Paris: Jacques Haumont, 1931.
Morand, Paul, and Germaine Krull. Route de Paris à la Méditerranée. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1931.
Simenon, Georges, and Germaine Krull. La Folle d’Itteville. Paris: Jacques Haumont, 1931.
Krull, Germaine, and André Suarès. Marseille. Paris: Librairie Plon, 1935.
Krull, Germaine, Raúl Lino, and Ruy Ribeiro Couto. Uma Cidade Antiga do Brasil, Ouro Preto. Lisboa: Edições Atlântico, 1943.
Vailland, Roger. La Bataille d’Alsace (Novembre-Décembre 1944). Paris: Jacques Haumont, 1945. (With photographs by Krull.)
Krull, Germaine. Chiengmai. Bangkok: Assumption Printing Press, 1950–1959?
Krull, Germaine, and Dorothea Melchers. Bangkok: Siam’s City of Angels. London: R. Hale, 1964.
Krull, Germaine, and Dorothea Melchers. Tales from Siam. London: R. Hale, 1966.
Krull, Germaine. Tibetans in India. Bombay: Allied Publishers, 1968.
Krull, Germaine. La Vita Conduce la Danza. Firenze: Giunti, 1992. ISBN 88-09-20219-8.
(Unpublished autobiography of Krull in French, La Vie Mène la Danse or “Life Leads the Dance”, translated into Italian by Giovanna Chiti.)