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

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

PH1985:0813

• exterior view

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]

France

• architecture

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