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

Worm's-eye view of Unité d'habitation showing the overhang and pilotis, Marseille, France

1952 or later

- 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.: 13.8 x 19.5 cm

PH1985:0812

• exterior view
• worm's-eye view

numbered and inscribed - by unknown hands, in black ball-point pen, on the print, verso, c.l. to l.l.: "8" [circled]; in green ball-point pen, l.r.: "21/44" [sideways]; and in graphite, l.l.: "le communication [?]" stamped - in blue ink, on the print, verso, c. to u.c.: "lucien hervé / 31, rue Vineuse, PARIS-16e - PASsy 20 65 / MENTION du NOM OBLIGATOIRE / ses Droits de reproduction réservés / COPYRIGHT" [sideways]

France

• architecture

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