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

Partial view of the west façade of Unité d'habitation under construction showing a scaffold and building materials, Marseille, France

1947-1952

- 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.

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 14.6 x 12.1 cm

PH1985:0754

• partial view
• exterior view

numbered - by an unknown hand, in blue ball-point pen, on the print, verso, c.: "I - 404" [diagonally; "I" underlined]; and in graphite, l.l. to l.r.: with illeg. erased text stamped - in blue ink, on the print, verso, c.: "lucien hervé / tous droits de reproduction réservés / 21, Av. Paul Adam, 17. / ETOile 07 - 87"; and "11, RUE SOYER / NEUILLY-S SEINE / MAI. 64-66" [over top of preceding stamp]

France

• architecture

• building materials
• scaffold

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