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Lucien Hervé

The Encounter between Two Visionaries of Modernity
Fragment from the documentary 'Lucien Hervé, Photographe malgré lui'. Director: Gerrit Messiaen
Unite d'habitation de Le Corbusier, Marseille, n.d.
Unite d'habitation de Le Corbusier, Marseille, n.d.
Lucien Hervé, Chapelle de Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, 1952
Secretariat, Chandigarh, Inde, n.d.
Lucien Hervé, La Tour Eiffel, Paris, 1939
Lucien Hervé, Chapelle de Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, 1952
Lucien Hervé, La Tour Eiffel et cheminées, Paris, 1945
Lucien Hervé, La Tour Eiffel, Paris, 1946
Lucien Hervé, Unite d'habitation de Le Corbusier, Nantes-Rezé, 1954
Unite d'habitation de Le Corbusier, Nantes-Rezé, 1952
Lucien Hervé, Chapelle de Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, 1952
Chapelle de Notre Dame du Haut, 1952
Lucien Hervé, Chapelle de Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, 1952
Lucien Hervé, Chapelle de Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, 1952
Lucien Hervé, Sous la Tour Eiffel, Paris, 1961
Lucien Hervé, Contact Sheet
Lucien Hervé, Contact Sheet
Jacques Sbriglio, Le Corbusier & Lucien Hervé. A Dialogue between Architect and Photographer, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011
Quentin Bajac, Jacques Sbriglio, Le Corbusier & Lucien Hervé. The Architect & The Photographer. A Dialogue, Thames & Hudson, 2011
Dear Monsieur Le Corbusier,

In response to your letter of the 27th, I would like to provide some details that can only contribute to our mutual understanding and to our collaborations , which I do, of course, desire.

Letter from Lucien Hervé, Paris 10 May 1945

When Lucien Hervé went to photograph the Unité d’habitation in Marseille in 1949, he did not imagine that from that day his destiny as a photographer would be linked to that of Le Corbusier. Following the advise of Father Couturier, editor in chief of the journal L’Art sacré, who had introduced him to Matisse in order that he might report on the painter, Lucien Hervé took 650 shots of that impressive architectural complex in a single day. Fascinated by the placement of the building amid a natural setting and by its innovative pilotis, Hervé was awestruck by the work and by the light that penetrated into it. When he returned to Paris , Hervé sent the photos to Le Corbusier, from whom he received a touching response dated 15 December 1949. Le Corbusier, clearly much impressed, wrote “You have the soul of an architect and you know how to see architecture”.
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