In 1949, the photographer Lucien Herv矇 (1910–2007) took a picture of an innovative apartment building in Marseille, France, and sent it to the building’s architect, Le Corbusier (1887–1965).
Le Corbusier responded by asking Herv矇 to become his official photographer. This book recounts the creative collaboration between these two groundbreaking Modernists.
The author takes the reader on a tour of sixteen of Le Corbusier’s most iconic buildings using Herv矇’s edited sheets of contact prints as visual guides. These sheets, which became an
effective tool in the collaborative dissemination of Le Corbusier’s work, capture Herv矇’s dynamic perspectives and dramatic use of light. His sequencing of the individual prints creates an
exhilarating rhythm that powerfully showcases the architect’s novel forms and materials.
