View of people descending exterior stairs, Unité d'habitation, Marseille, France

People:

Lucien Hervé (photographer)
Le Corbusier (architect)
André Wogenscky (architect)
Vladimir Bodiansky (engineer)

Title:

View of people descending exterior stairs, Unité d'habitation, Marseille, France

Date:

1952 or later

Description:

- A group of 178 gelatin silver prints acquired from Lucien Hervé in 1985 are of built works by Le Corbusier in France including: 124 photographs of Unité d'habitation, Marseille, 19 photographs of Maison A Jaoul and Maison B Jaoul, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 34 photographs of Villa Savoye, Poissy, and one photograph of a building, possibly by Fernand Pouillon, possibly located in France. The prints are of different sizes and show details and general views, predominantly exteriors of the buildings.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 16.9 x 17.4 cm

Reference number:

PH1985:0764

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

numbered and inscribed - by unknown hands, in green pencil, on the print, verso, u.l.: "2" [sideways; circled]; in blue ball-point pen, u.r. to l.r.: "Les temps sont déjà lointains, où / les premiers visiteurs furent auto - / risés d'y pénétrer pour se rendre / compte par eux-mêmes de / l'inanité de certaines / campagnes de presse." [sideways]; and in blue ball-point pen, c.: "1 - 39" [sideways; "1" underlined] stamped - in blue ink, on the print, verso, c.l.: "11, RUE SOYER / NEUILLY-S SEINE / MAI. 64-66" [sideways]; and c.: "lucien hervé / tous droits de reproduction réservés" [sideways]

Location:

France

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

stairs

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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