As in many of Kertész's early images of Paris, the Eiffel Tower combines his interest in a documentary vision while also displaying his unique, modern aesthetic. Taken from a window of a building designed by the Hungarian architect André Szivessy, the tower quietly pokes out of the fog behind the foreground's abstracted rooftops. In 1925, Kertész sent carte postale copies to both Elizabeth and his mother. The image reappears later hanging on a wall in a 1927 self-portrait, and more importantly again in that year on the invitation for his first exhibition, at the gallery Au Sacre du Printemps (see back cover).