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HardCover. Pub Date :2012-10-08 Pages: 256 Language: English Publisher: Thames Hudson Le Corbusier's development was inextricably connected to the rise of the century's most popular visual medium: photography. Marking the 125th anniversary of the architect's birth in La Chaux -de-Fonds. Switzerland. this remarkable book traces the many ways in which he used photography to define and disseminate his work and ideas around the world. This unique portrait presents the architect and his work in six chapters. each by an expert in a particular facet of Le Corbusier's work: a photographic biography; his secret travel photographs; the ways in which the architect used photography for promotion; an examination of his approach to the printed page; an overview of his use of large-scale imagery in his buildings and exhibitions; and contemporary photographic interpretations of his work. Be...
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Le Corbusier and the Power of Photography is an irresistible visual scrapbook. --Vogue
Remarkable --Another Mag
Le Corbusier will love this exhaustive book --Amateur Photographer
Just when you thought there wasn't any more to write about the wily old Swiss iconoclast, along comes another rich tome with insight as to exactly why Corbusier continues to exert such a hold. --Wallpaper*
A volume of visual pleasure. --Juxtapoz
From another perspective the book provides a more intimate way to access Le Corbusier's creative process and some of the surprising inspirations behind his work. --Architect's Newspaper Blog
Superb and scholarly. --The Wall Street Journal
striking --Burlington Magazine
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Remarkable --Another Mag
Le Corbusier will love this exhaustive book --Amateur Photographer
Just when you thought there wasn't any more to write about the wily old Swiss iconoclast, along comes another rich tome with insight as to exactly why Corbusier continues to exert such a hold. --Wallpaper*
A volume of visual pleasure. --Juxtapoz
From another perspective the book provides a more intimate way to access Le Corbusier's creative process and some of the surprising inspirations behind his work. --Architect's Newspaper Blog
Superb and scholarly. --The Wall Street Journal
striking --Burlington Magazine
Nathalie Herschdorfer is an author and curator specialised in photography. She is the director of the Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle, Switzerland, and a curator with FEP (Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography). She has written a number of books amongst which are Afterwards and reGeneration.
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