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

View of the roof of Unité d'habitation showing the base of a ventilation shaft and a detail of the gymnasium wall, 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.: 15.0 x 23.8 cm

PH1985:0830

• exterior view

numbered and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in blue ball-point pen, on the print, verso, c.: "LII - 107" ["LII" underlined] [upside down]; and l.r.: "Marseille" [diagonally] numbered - by an unknown hand, in red pall-point pen, on the print, verso, u.l.: "8" ["8" is circled] stamped - in red ink, on the print, verso, c.: "Photo Lucien HERVÉ / 31, rue Vineuse, PARIS 16e - PASsy 20 - 65 / MENTION du NO[M] OBLIGATOIRE / ses Droits de reproduction réservés - Copyright / OEuvre de Monsieur LECORBUSIER / ses Droits réservés SPADEM - PARIS" ["OEuvre de Monsieur LECORBUSIER / ses Droits réservés SPADEM - PARIS" is crossed out in red ball-point pen]

France

• architecture

• roof
• ventilation shaft (space)

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