Photos: Optical illusion leaves Eiffel Tower teetering over ravine

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Photos: Optical illusion leaves Eiffel Tower teetering over ravine

Look: French capital's Eiffel Tower is perched precariously over a rocky ravine

Published: May 21, 2021 11:24 Reuters and compiled by Balaram Menon, Senior Web Editor

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Copy of France_Art_03934.jpg-3b739-1621581454421 — An art installation has created the optical illusion that the French capital's Eiffel Tower is perched precariously over a rocky ravine. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of 2021-05-19T124825Z_1030513514_RC2ZIN9MUUOJ_RTRMADP_3_FRANCE-EIFFEL-ILLUSION-1621581432925 — The artwork, by an artist who uses the pseudonym JR, involved laying an image of a ravine, and the pillars that form the base of the Eiffel Tower, onto the floor of an esplanade that overlooks the tower. Image Credit: REUTERS

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Copy of 138598-01-02-1621581446314 — When a visitor stands in the right spot, the artwork in the foreground and the tower in the background line up with each other, and the illusion is created. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of France_Art_62903.jpg-72ab5-1621581427092 — People take photographs at the Trocadero square in front of the Eiffel Tower where French artist and photographer known as JR set his artwork. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of 137372-01-02-1621581439343 — People walk on the esplanade des Droits De L'homme at the Trocadero Square in front of the Eiffel Tower. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 2021-05-19T131236Z_1868044936_RC2ZIN940LBI_RTRMADP_3_FRANCE-EIFFEL-ILLUSION-1621581435982 — "I think it's really cool because it's really realistic," said one visitor, Lara Watson. "I like that it combines with the Eiffel Tower, so the piece of art becomes a piece of art because of the Eiffel Tower already behind it." Image Credit: REUTERS

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Copy of APTOPIX_France_Art_15041.jpg-3cfc9-1621581450060 — A man jumps on the Trocadero square in front of the Eiffel Tower. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of 137379-01-02-1621581442234 — Other work by the same artist includes an installation at the US-Mexico border wall that appears to show a giant baby peering over the wall, and an optical illusion that made it appear a chasm had opened up in the courtyard of the Louvre museum in Paris. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of France_Art_45671.jpg-45206-1621581457971 — A pigeon flies over the Torcadero square in front of the Eiffel Tower where French artist and photographer known as JR set his artwork. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of 2021-05-19T124811Z_2140200398_RC2ZIN9J0ODA_RTRMADP_3_FRANCE-EIFFEL-ILLUSION-1621581429725 — A woman jumps on a giant artwork by French artist JR installed on the Trocadero square in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Image Credit: REUTERS

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