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LC FOTO. Le Corbusier Secret Photographer | Tim Benton | 9783037783443

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LC FOTO

Le Corbusier Secret Photographer

Author:Tim Benton

Publisher:Lars Müller

ISBN: 978-3-03778-344-3

  • Hardcover
  • English
  • 416 Pages
  • Jul 22, 2013

LC FOTO: Le Corbusier Secret Photographer presents the famous architect's use of photography. While Le Corbusier always claimed that he saw no virtue in taking photographs, he actually bought three cameras and took several hundred photographs between 1907 and 1917, many of them of publishable quality. In 1936 he acquired a 16mm movie camera and took 120 sequences of film and nearly 6,000 photographs with it.


In LC FOTO. Le Corbusier. Secret Photographer Tim Benton reflects on the famous architect’s use of photography, starting with the young Charles-Edouard Jeanneret’s attempts to take professional photographs during his travels in central Europe, the Balkans, Turkey, Greece, and Italy.

This previously unpublished material is the basis for the publication. It reveals Le Corbusier to be a sensitive and brilliant manipulator of a wide range of photographic styles. LC FOTO Le Corbusier: Secret Photographer provides dramatically new insights into Le Corbusier’s visual imagination, his changing attitudes towards nature and materials in the 1930s, and his distrust of progress.

LC FOTO: Le Corbusier Secret Photographer presents the famous architect's use of photography. While Le Corbusier always claimed that he saw no virtue in taking photographs, he actually bought three cameras and took several hundred photographs between 1907 and 1917, many of them of publishable quality. In 1936 he acquired a 16mm movie camera and took 120 sequences of film and nearly 6,000 photographs with it.


In LC FOTO. Le Corbusier. Secret Photographer Tim Benton reflects on the famous architect’s use of photography, starting with the young Charles-Edouard Jeanneret’s attempts to take professional photographs during his travels in central Europe, the Balkans, Turkey, Greece, and Italy.

This previously unpublished material is the basis for the publication. It reveals Le Corbusier to be a sensitive and brilliant manipulator of a wide range of photographic styles. LC FOTO Le Corbusier: Secret Photographer provides dramatically new insights into Le Corbusier’s visual imagination, his changing attitudes towards nature and materials in the 1930s, and his distrust of progress.

The book offers through digital codes exclusive access to sequences of film by Le Corbusier, which can be played on smartphones and tablets.



LC FOTO: Le Corbusier Secret Photographer presents the famous architect's use of photography. While Le Corbusier always claimed that he saw no virtue in taking photographs, he actually bought three photo cameras between 1907 and 1917 and in 1936 also a 16mm movie camera and took hundreds of film sequences and photographs.

This previously unpublished material is the basis for the publication. It reveals Le Corbusier to be a sensitive and brilliant manipulator of a wide range of photographic styles.

The book offers through digital codes exclusive access to sequences of film by Le Corbusier, which can be played on smartphones and tablets.

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