Exterior view of Unité d'habitation showing the overhang, pilotis and surrounding landscape, Marseille, France

People:

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

Title:

Exterior view of Unité d'habitation showing the overhang, pilotis and surrounding landscape, 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.: 18.7 x 11.6 cm

Reference number:

PH1985:0813

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

numbered - by unknown hands, in green ball-point pen, on the print, verso, c.l.: "Marseille" [sideways]; in blue ball-point pen, c.r.: "XXI - 46" [sideways; "XXI" underlined]; and in graphite, l.l.: "Lucien Hervé / le communication [?]" stamped - in blue ink, on the print, verso, c. to l.c.: "lucien hervé / 31, rue Vineuse, PARIS-1[6]e - PASsy 20 - 65 / MENTION du [NOM OBLI]GATOIRE / ses Droits de [reproduct]ion réservés / COPYRIGHT" [sideways]

Location:

France

Subject:

architecture

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

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