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Le Corbusier: Secret Photographer
Tim Benton
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Description for Le Corbusier: Secret Photographer
Hardback. - A publication dedicated to Le Corbusier as a photographer - Contains previously unpublished photographs by Le Corbusier Num Pages: 272 pages, 100. BIC Classification: AJB; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1242.
In 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. 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. This completely unknown body of material is the basis ... Read more
In 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. 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. This completely unknown body of material is the basis ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Lars Muller Publishers
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
1241g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baden, Switzerland
ISBN
9783037783443
SKU
V9783037783443
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About Tim Benton
Tim Benton, born in Rome in 1945, was educated at Cambridge and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. He taught for forty years at the Open University England and is currently professor emeritus in the history of art.
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