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Authors, works and languages of the image
Laure Albin-Guillot
Le Marteau en Fleurs, c. 1940

"Le Marteau en Fleurs", c. 1940. © Laure Albin Guillot / Roger-Viollet.
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Introduction
The image commands the viewer’s attention through a visual dialectic founded on stark contrast: the inexorable hardness of steel and manual labor collides and merges, in an unexpected poetic synthesis, with the ephemeral fragility of the floral element.
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