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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 This previously unpublished material is the basis for the publication.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. 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. AUTHOR: 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. ILLUSTRATIONS 100 photosProduct Identifiers
PublisherLars Muller Publishers
ISBN-139783037783443
eBay Product ID (ePID)178192870
Product Key Features
Book TitleLe Corbusier: Secret Photographer
AuthorTim Benton
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
Number of Pages272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height241mm
Item Width165mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorTim Benton
Country/Region of ManufactureSwitzerland