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abstract |
This is a detailed, archival study of the photographs that Le Corbusier took between
1907 and 1917 and between 1936 and 1938. The first half of the book reverses many
of the assumptions in the literature about the young Le Corbusier's experiments with
photography, demonstrating that he made a serious attempt to take professional photographs
and dedicated much more time, money and effort to this undertaking that he hiumself
admits. There is also a completely new analysis of the quality and meaning of these
photogrtaphs. The second half of the book explores a completely unknown body of work,
the 6,000 photographs whcih Le Corbusier took with a 16mm movie camera. A case is
made here for a fundamental re-thinking of Le Corbusier's photographic aesthetic and
personal taste in the 1930s. |