A tight framing on two hanging keys, a container, a sponge, four objects suspended on a white wall, and a few ceramic tiles... This 1939 photograph by Daniel Masclet is intriguing. It deliberately embraces its own banality, both through its subject matter and the title given by its author: Dans ma cuisine. There is nothing exotic, no promise of elsewhere, no event or decisive moment to capture. Daniel Masclet draws our attention to a seemingly insignificant corner of his apartment, invi…